Epistemology modalized
By: Kelly Becker.
Series: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy -- 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415956116
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Modality (Theory of knowledge); Externalism (Philosophy of mind)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: externalism and modalism; title: Externalism; title: Modalism; title: What should the theory do?; title: What's missing?; title: Process reliabilism; title: Goldman's causal theory; title: Goldman's discrimination requirement and relevant alternatives; title: Process reliabilism and why it is not enough; title: Implications for skepticism; title: Sensitivity; title: Nozick's subjunctive conditional theory of knowledge; title: Methods : an important refinement; title: Objections to nozicks theory; title: Safety; title: Motivating safety; title: Weak and strong safety : luck and induction; title: Is safety necessary for knowledge?; title: Luck revisited : safety requires a process reliability condition; title: Is reliability compatible with knowledge of the denials of skeptical hypotheses?; title: Knowledge : reliably formed sensitive true belief; title: The theory; title: Problems and clarifications; title: Closure and the value problem; title: Closure; title: The value problem.