PY5102: CURRENT ISSUES (Epistemology)

ADDITIONAL READING: GENERAL

Course Organiser and Lecturer: Patrick Greenough

Please Note:

The additional reading given below is not exhaustive. You may well find other useful books and anthologies in the library or elsewhere. These are just some of the books that I have used (explicitly or implicitly) in writing the lectures and handouts.
This additional reading is not in any way compulsory, but you may find it helpful, particularly when writing your project or revising to look at some of these works.
Further suggested reading will be given in the course handouts and is to be found in the seminar by seminar additional reading.
Key: A = main library, B = Class Library, C = On order for main library, D = On order for class library.

GENERAL TEXTS IN EPISTEMOLOGY (most useful first for the purposes of this course):

Stephen Hetherington (1996): Knowledge Puzzles: An Introduction to Epistemology, Boulder: Westview Press. (Short loan, B, C)
Michael Williams (2001): Problems of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Short loan, B)
Jonathan Dancy (1985): Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford: Blackwells. (3 day loan, short loan, B, B, B, B)
Laurence Bonjour (2002): Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses, Rowman and Littlefield. (A, D)
Moser, P. K., Mulder, D. and Trout, J.D. (1998): The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction, Oxford: OUP. (A)
John Pollock and Joesph Cruz (1999): Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, 2nd edition, Rowman and Littlefield (C)
John Pollock (1991): Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, Rowman and Littlefield. (A, B)
Robert Audi (1998): Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, London: Routledge. (3 day loan, A, B, B)
Robert Audi (1998): Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd edition, London: Routledge. (A, B, B)
Keith Lehrer (2000): Theory of Knowledge, 2^nd edition, Boulder: Westview Press. (C, D)
Jay F. Rosenberg (2000): Three Conversations about Knowing, Hackett. (C)
Charles Landesman (1997): An Introduction to Epistemology: The Central Issues, Blackwells. (A)
Roderick Chisholm (1966): The Theory of Knowledge, Prentice-Hall. (A, B 3rd edition)
Adam Morton (1997): A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwells. (3 short loan, B)
Adam Morton (2001): A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge, 3rd edition, Oxford: Blackwells. (C)
Matthias Steup (1995): An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, publisher: US Imports. (E)
Michael Welbourne (2001): Knowledge, Acumen. (A, B)
Alessandra Tanesini (1998): An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies, Blackwells. (E)
Alec Fisher and Nicholas Everitt (1995): Modern Epistemology: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Education. (A)

TEXTS ON SCEPTICISM (most useful first for the purposes of this course)

Christopher Hookway (1990): Scepticism, Routledge. (A, B, B)
Neil Gasciogne (2001): Scepticism, Acumen. (A)
R. J. Hankinson (1998): The Sceptics, Routledge. (A)

COMPANIONS/HANDBOOKS IN EPISTEMOLOGY (most useful first for the purposes of this course):

Dancy, J. and Sosa, E. (eds) (1993): A Companion to Epistemology, Oxford: Blackwells. (Reference, short loan, B)
Paul K. Moser (ed.) (2002): The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, Oxford University Press. (A, D)

GENERAL ANTHOLOGIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY (most useful first for the purposes of this course):

Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim (eds) (2000) : Epistemology: an Anthology, Oxford: Blackwells. (Short loan, B, C)
Bernecker, S. and Dretske, F. (eds) (2000): Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford: OUP. (3 day loan, B)
Huemer, M. and Audi, R. (eds) (2002): Epistemology: Contemporary Readings, London: Routledge. (A, B)
Alcoff, L. (ed.) (1998): Epistemology: The Big Questions, Oxford: Blackwells. (B)
Greco, J. and Sosa, E. (eds) (1999): The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, Oxford: Blackwells. (reference, B)
J. E. Tomberlin (1999): Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 13, Epistemology, Blackwells. (A, reference, B)
J. E. Tomberlin (1988): Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 2, Epistemology, Ridgeview Press. (A)
Stephen Luper-Foy (1987): The Possibility of Knowledge: Nozick and his Critics, Rowman and Littlefield. (B)
Jonathan L. Kvanvig (ed.) (1996): Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in honour of Plantinga's Epistemology, Rowman and Littlefield. (A)
Ernest Sosa (ed.) (1994): Knowledge and Justification (International Research Library of Philosophy), Dartmouth. (Short loan, A)
Matthias Steup (ed.) (2001): Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue, OUP. (A)
Moser, P.K. & van der Nat, A. (1995): Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches, 2^nd edition, OUP. (A, B, Andrew Melville library)
Moser, P.K. & van der Nat, A. (1987): Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches, 1st edition, OUP. (A, B)
David Cooper (1999): Epistemology: The Classic Readings, Blackwells. (A)
Stephen Luper (ed.) (2003): Essential Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings in Epistemology, Longman. (C)
George Pappas and Marshall Swain (eds) (1978): Essays on Knowledge and Justification, Cornell University Press. (A)
George Pappas (ed.) (1979): Justification and Knowledge, Dordrecht: Reidel. (Contains ....) (A)

ANTHOLOGIES ON SCEPTICISM (most useful first for the purposes of this course)

Stephen Luper (ed.) (2003): The Sceptics: Contemporary Essays, Ashgate. (It's new, it's cute, you should buy it ...) (C, D)
Ernest Sosa & Enrique Villanueva (eds.) (2000): Philosophical Issues vol. 10, Skepticism, Blackwells (A, D)
Keith DeRose and Ted Warfield (eds) (1999): Scepticism: A Contemporary Reader, OUP. (A, D)
Michael Williams (ed.) (1993): Scepticism, International Research Library of Philosophy, Aldershot: Dartmouth. (A)
Marjorie Clay and Keith Lehrer (eds) (1989): Knowledge and Scepticism, Westview. (C)
Charles Landesman and Meeks, R. (eds) (2003): Philosophical Scepticism: From Plato to Rorty, Oxford: Blackwells. (C)
Miles Burnyeat (ed.) (1983): The Sceptical Tradition, University of California Press. (C)

MORE SPECIALIST ANTHOLOGIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY (most useful first for the purposes of this course)

Hilary Kornblith (ed.) (2001): Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism, Blackwells. (A, D)
Johnathan Dancy (ed.) (1988): Perceptual Knowledge, Oxford University Press. (A, B, B)
Denis McManus (ed.) (2003): Wittgenstein and Scepticism, Taylor and Francis Books. (C)
Abrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski (eds) (2001): Virtue Epistemology: Essays in Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility, OUP.(A)
Michael Brady and Duncan Pritchard (eds) (2003): Moral and Epistemic Virtues, Blackwells. (C)
Guy Axtell (ed.) (2000): Knowledge, Belief, and Character: Readings in Virtue Epistemology, Rowman and Littlefield. (C)
Susan Nuccatelli (ed.) (2003): New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge, MIT Press. (C)
Hilary Kornblith (ed.) (1985): Naturalizing Epistemology, MIT Press. (3 day loan)
John Bender (ed.) (1989): The Current State of the Coherence Theory, Kluwer. (E)
Frederick Schmidtt (ed.) (1994): Socialising Epistemology, Rowman and Littlefield. (E)
Brie Gertler (ed.) (2003): Priviledged Access: Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge, Ashgate. (C)
Carl Ginet and Sidney Shoemaker (eds) (1984): Knowledge and Mind: Philosophical Essays, OUP. (A)
Quassim Cassam (ed.) (1994): Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press. (Short loan, B, B)
Rush Rhees and D.Z. Philips (eds) (2002): Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There Like our Life, Blackwells. (C)

USEFUL GENERAL ARTICLES IN EPISTEMOLOGY (most useful first for the purposes of this course):

James Pryor (2001): 'Highlights of Recent Epistemology', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52.
Paul K. Moser (1996): 'Epistemology (1900-Present)', in John Canfield (ed.) Routledge History of Philosophy, Vol. 10, London: Routledge.
Duncan Pritchard (2002) ‘Recent Work on Radical Skepticism’, American Philosophical Quarterly 39.
Scott Sturgeon, Mike Martin, and A. C. Grayling (1995): 'Epistemology', in A. C. Grayling (ed.) Philosophy 1: A Guide Through the Subject, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

EPISTEMOLOGY SINCE 1966 (in order of publication):

Roderick Chisholm (1966): Theory of Knowledge, Prentice-Hall (A, B, 3rd edition)

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969): On Certainty, edited by G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, Blackwells (A, B, B, B)

Arne Naess (1969): Scepticism, Routledge. (A, B)

Fred Dretske (1969): Seeing and Knowing, University of Chicago Press. (A)

Gilbert Harman (1973): Thought, Princeton University Press. (A)

David Armstrong (1973): Belief, Truth, and Knowledge, Cambridge University Press (A)

Keith Lehrer (1974): Knowledge, Clarendon Press. (A, B)

John Pollock (1974): Knowledge and Justification, Princeton University Press. (A)

Peter Unger (1975): Ignorance: The Case for Scepticism, Clarendon Press. (C)

Carl Ginet (1975): Knowledge, Perception, and Memory, Dordrecht: Reidel. (A, B)

Michael Williams (1977): Groundless Belief: An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology, Blackwells (A, B)

Robert Nozick (1981): Philosophical Explanations, Harvard University Press. (A, B)

Marshall Swain (1981): Reasons and Knowledge, Cornell University Press. (E)

Fred Dretske (1981): Knowledge and the Flow of Information, MIT Press. (A, B)

Peter D. Klein (1981): Certainty: A Refutation of Scepticism, University of Minnesota Press. (C)

Roderick M. Chisholm (1982): The Foundations of Knowing, University of Minnesota Press. (A)

Robert Shope (1983): The Analysis of Knowing: A Decade of Research, Princeton University Press (A)

Robert Stalnaker (1994): Inquiry, MIT Press. (A, B)

Barry Stroud (1984): The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, Clarendon Press. (A, B, B, B)

Laurence Bonjour (1985): The Structure of Empirical Knowledge, Harvard University Press. (A, B)

George Schlesinger (1985): The Range of Epistemic Logics, Scots Philosophical Monographs. (B)

P. F. Strawson (1985): Scepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties, Methuen. (A, B)

Alvin Goldman (1986): Epistemology and Cognition, Harvard University Press. (A, B)

Richard Foley (1987): The Theory of Epistemic Rationality, Harvard University Press. (C)

A. C. Grayling (1988): The Refutation of Scepticism, Duckworth. (E)

Paul K. Moser (1989): Knowledge and Evidence, Cambridge University Press. (A, B)

William P Alston (1989): Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge, Cornell University Press. (C)

Gilbert Harman (1990): Scepticism and the Definition of Knowledge, Harvard Dissertations In Philosophy, Garland Science (E)

Stephen Stich (1990): The Fragmentation of Reason, MIT Press. (C)

Ernest Sosa (1991): Knowledge in Perspective: Selected essays in Epistemology, Cambridge University Press. (A)

Michael Williams (1991): Unnatural Doubts: Epistemological Realism and the Basis of Scepticism, Blackwells. (A, B)

Frederick F. Schmidt (1992): Knowledge and Belief, Routledge. (E)

Bruce Aune (1992): Knowledge of the External World, Routledge. (A)

Stephen Hetherington (1992): Epistemology's Paradox, Rowman and Littlefield. (C)

Robert Audi (1993): The Structure of Justification, Cambridge University Press. (A&B)

Alvin Plantinga (1993): Warrant and Proper Function, Oxford University Press. (A, D)

Alvin Plantinga (1993): Warrant: The Current Debate, Oxford University Press. (A, D)

W.V. O. Quine (1993) : Pursuit of Truth, Harvard University Press. (A)

James Montmarquet (1993): Epistemic Virtue and Doxastic Responsibility, Rowman and Littlefield. (C)

William P. Alston (1993): The Reliability of Sense Perception, Cornell University Press. (A)

Avrum Stroll (1994): Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty, OUP. (A)

Susan Haack (1994): Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Philosophy, Blackwells. (A)

Robert J. Fogelin (1994): Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification, Oxford University Press. (C)

Richard A. Fumerton (1995): Metaepistemology and Scepticism, Rowman and Littlefield. (C, D)

Linda Martin Alcoff (1996): New Versions of the Coherence Theory, Cornell University Press. (C)

Linda Zagzebski (1996): Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge, Cambridge University Press. (B, C)

Keith Lehrer (1997): Self-Trust: A study of Reason, Knowledge and Autonomy, Clarendon Press. (A)

Lawrence Bonjour (1998): In Defence of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. (A, B)

Panayot Butcharov (1998): Scepticism about the External World, OUP. (C)

Alvin Goldman (1999): Knowledge in a Social World, Clarendon Press. (A, D)

Colin McGinn (1999): Knowledge and Reality: Selected Essays, Clarendon Press. (A)

Christopher Peacocke (1999): Being Known, OUP. (A, B, B)

David Lewis (1999): Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, Vol II, Cambridge University Press. (A, B)

Edward Craig (1999): Knowledge and the State of Nature, Clarendon Press. (A)

Fred Dretske (2000): Perception, Knowledge, and Belief, Cambridge University Press. (A)

John Greco (2000): Putting Skeptics in their Place, Cambridge University Press. (C)

Barry Stroud (2000): Understanding Human Knowledge: Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press. (A, D)

Timothy Williamson (2000): Knowledge and its Limits, OUP. (A, B, B)

Richard Swinburne (2001): Epistemic Justification, Clarendon. (A)

Robert Audi (2001): The Architecture of Reason, Oxford University Press. (A, D)

Richard Foley (2001) : Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others, Cambridge University Press. (C)

Michael Huemer (2001) Scepticism and the Veil of Perception, Rowman and Littlefield. (C)

Stephen Hetherington (2001): Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge, Oxford University Press. (A, D)

Alvin Goldman (2001): Pathways of Knowledge: Private and Public, Oxford University Press. (C & D)

Charles Landesman (2002): Scepticism: The Central Issues, Blackwells. (C)

Jay Rosenberg (2002): Thinking about Knowing, Clarendon Press. (C, D)

Hilary Kornblith (2002): Knowledge And its Place in Nature, Clarendon Press. (C)

Johnathan E. Adler (2002): Belief's Own Ethics, MIT Press. (C)

Martin Kusch (2002): Knowledge by Agreement: The Programme of Communitarian Epistemology, Clarendon Press. (C)

Laurence Bonjour and Ernest Sosa (2003): Epistemic Justification: Internalism versus Externalism, Foundations versus Virtues, Blackwells. (C & D)

John Hawthorne (forthcoming): Knowledge and Lotteries, Oxford: OUP.

If you have any suggestions as to how this bibliography might be improved then please email me.

Last modified: 8th Feb 2004.