Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology [Paperback]

Jonathan L. Kvanvig (Author), Laurence Bonjour (Contributor), Earl Conee (Contributor), Richard Feldman (Contributor), Richard Foley (Contributor), Peter Klein (Contributor), Jonathan Kvanvig (Contributor), Keith Lehrer (Contributor), William Lycan (Contributor), Peter Markie (Contributor), George Pappas (Contributor), Alvin Plantinga (Contributor), Ernest Sosa (Contributor), Marshall Swain (Contributor), Bas van Fraassen (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1996 | Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory

In his widely influential two-volume work, Warrant: The Current Debate and Warrant and Proper Function, Alvin Plantinga argued that warrant is that which explains the difference between knowledge and true belief. Plantinga not only developed his own account of warrant but also mapped the terrain of epistemology. Motivated by Plantinga's work, fourteen prominent philosophers have written new essays investigating Plantingian warrant and its contribution to contemporary epistemology. The resulting collection, representing a broad array of views, not only gives readers a critical perspective on Plantinga's landmark work, but also provides in one volume a clear statement of the variety of approaches to the nature of warrant within contemporary epistemology, and to the connections between epistemology and metaphysics. Positions covered include internalism and externalism, reliabilism, coherentism and foundationalism, virtue theories, and defensibility theories. Alvin Plantinga responds to the essays in his own contribution.

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Review

This is an instructive and exemplary collection of reasoning about knowledge. It introduces the reader to implications in Plantinga's perspective that can be readily pursued in examination of his other work recently and soon to be published. (Arc, The Journal Of The Faculty Of Religious Studies, Mcgill )

About the Author

Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A & M University and the author, most recently, of The Problem of Hell (Oxford University Press, 1993) and The Intellectual Virtues and the Life of the Mind (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992).

Product Details

• Paperback: 396 pages
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847681599
• ISBN-13: 978-0847681594
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,489,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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