What is this thing called knowledge?

How to use this book

pt. 1. What is knowledge?

1. Some preliminaries

Types of knowledge

Two basic requirements on knowledge : truth and belief

Knowing versus merely 'getting it right'

A brief remark on truth

2. The value of knowledge

Why care about knowledge?

The instrumental value of true belief

The value of knowledge

The statues of Daedalus

Is some knowledge intrinsically valuable?

3. Defining knowledge

The problem of the criterion

Methodism and particularism

Knowledge as justified true belief

Gettier cases

Responding to the Gettier cases

Back to the problem of the criterion

4. The structure of knowledge

Knowledge and justification

The enigmatic nature of justification

Agrippa's trilemma

Infinitism

Coherentism

Foundationalism

5. Rationality

Rationality, justification and knowledge

Epistemic rationality and the goal of truth

The goal(s) of epistemic rationality

The (un)importance of epistemic rationality

Rationality and responsibility

Epistemic internalism/externalism

6. Virtues and faculties

Reliabilism

A 'Gettier' problem for reliabilism

Virtue epistemology

Virtue epistemology and the externalism/internalism distinction

pt. 2. Where does knowledge come from?

7. Perception

The problem of perceptual knowledge

Indirect realism

Idealism

Transcendental idealism

Direct realism

8. Testimony and memory

The problem of testimonial knowledge

Reductionism

Credulism

The problem of memorial knowledge

9. A priority and inference

A priori and empirical knowledge

The interdependence of a priori and empirical knowledge

Introspective knowledge

Deduction

Induction

Abduction

10. The problem of induction

The problem of induction

Responding to the problem of induction

Living with the problem of induction 1 : falsification

Living with the problem of induction 2 : pragmatism

pt. 3. Do we know anything at all?

11. Scepticism about other minds

The problem of other minds

The argument from analogy

A problem for the argument from analogy

Two versions of the problem of other minds

Perceiving someone else's mind

12. Radical scepticism

The radical sceptical paradox

Scepticism and closure

Mooreanism

Contextualism

13. Truth and objectivity

Objectivity, anti-realism, and scepticism

Truth as the goal of inquiry

Authenticity and the value of truth

Relativism

General further reading

Glossary

Index.