This advanced textbook, now in its second edition, provides an accessible overview of some of the main issues in contemporary epistemology. Written by an expert in the field, it covers such key topics as virtue epistemology, anti-luck epistemology, epistemological disjunctivism, epistemic value, understanding, radical scepticism, and contextualism. This book is ideal as a set text for an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate course in epistemology, and will also be of general interest to researchers in philosophy.

A greatly expanded and updated second edition of an already highlyregarded advanced epistemology textbook Includes new coverage of religious belief and testimony Includes expanded coverage of epistemic value, understanding, foundationalism and the historical debates regarding scepticism Much improved pedagogy, including new chapter summaries

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Duncan Pritchard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Professor Pritchard is widely recognised as one of the world's leading experts in the area of epistemology. He is the author of Epistemic Luck (2005) and Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012).

Inhalt

1. Analysing Knowledge

2. Anti-Luck Epistemology

3. Virtue Epistemology

4. Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology

5. Externalism and Internalism about Knowledge

6. Radical Scepticism

7. Understanding

8. The Value of Knowledge

9. Religious Belief and Testimony