Table of Contents

Introduction. Chapter 1: Empiricism and Rationalism. Rationalism. Innateness. Plato's Meno. Causation and the Laws of Nature. Empiricism. Beginning at the Beginning. Ideas of sensation and refl ection, and concepts. Cause and Necessity. Further Reading. Questions. Chapter 2: Knowledge and Justification. Foundationalism and Coherentism. Foundationalism. Foundationalism and Empiricism. Objections to Foundationalism. Coherentism. Objections to Coherentism. Summary. Induction and Deduction. Truth, Belief, and Justification. The Gettier Puzzle: Problems with the Tripartite Definition. Two Accounts of Truth. Non-Justificatory Approaches to Knowledge. (1) Reliabilism. (2) Internalism and Externalism. The Story So Far. Further Reading. Questions. Chapter 3: Knowledge and Scepticism. Two Forms of Scepticism. Descartes and the Method of Doubt - the Meditations. Arguments from Illusion, Deception, and Dreaming. 'Cogito, ergo sum'; the cogito. Reason as the Source of our Conceptual Apparatus. Empiricism and Scepticism. Is Global Scepticism Possible? . My Knowledge of My Self. Further Reading. Questions. Chapter 4: Knowledge of the External World. Naive Realism. Experience as a Source of Concepts. Representative Realism. Phenomenalism. Idealism. Further Reading. Questions.

About the Author

Dr Clare Hay has an interest in the Philosophy of Logic and Language, the History of Modern Philosophy and the History and Philosophy of Science. She is currently writing on the Theory of Knowledge and editing Hirschberger's Short History of Western Philosophy for The Lutterworth Press.