Epistemology: The Classic Readings by David E. Cooper (University of Durham)
From Plato to Quine, this volume provides a concise collection of the essential, classic readings in theory of knowledge.
Epistemology
Epistemology
Summary
From Plato to Quine, this text provides a collection of the essential, classic readings in the theory of knowledge. It contains 20 historical contributions, from the earliest times to Wittgenstein and from China to the USA. Several of the texts address the problem of scepticism.
Epistemology Summary
About David E. Cooper (University of Durham)
David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. He is the author of a number of books including Metaphor (1986), Existentialism (1990), and World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (1996). He is also editor of the Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics (1992), Aesthetics: the Classic Readings (1997), and Ethics: the Classic Readings (1998). All of the above are published by Blackwell Publishers.
Table of Contents
1. Plato, Republic, 475e-480a and 506d-518c.
2. Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Book I, 1-4 & 31 and Book II, 19.
3. Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Book I, 1-16 & 18-27.
4. The Book of Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2.
5. The Nyaya-Sutras, from Book I, Chapter I & Book II, Chapter 1, with Vatsyayana Commentary.
6. Nagarjuna, Vigrahavyavartani, 5-6, 30-51.
7. Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy I-III and Objections and Replies (Selections).
8.(A) John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I, Chapter 2, 1-24.(B) G. W. Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding, Preface.
9. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 12.
10. Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay 6, Chapter 5.
11. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Introduction.
(2nd Edition), I-VI.
12. Friedrich Nietzsche, On truth and lies in a nonmoral sense.
13. Charles S. Pierce, Some consequences of four incapacities (excerpt) and the fixation of belief.
14. Edmund Husserl, The Idea of Phenomenology, Lectures 1-2.
15. Bertrand Russell, Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.
16. Moritz Schlick, On the foundation of knowledge.
17. Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, 1-42, 91-105, 192-284.
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Epistemology: The Classic Readings by David E. Cooper (University of Durham)
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1999-01-09
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