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Paperback | 9 December 1991

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Paul Moser's book defends what has been an unfashionable view in recent epistemology: the foundationalist account of knowledge and justification. Since the time of Plato philosophers have wondered what exactly knowledge is. This book develops a new account of perceptual knowledge which specifies the exact sense in which knowledge has foundations. The author argues that experiential foundations are indeed essential to perceptual knowledge, and he explains what knowledge requires beyond justified true beliefs. In challenging prominent sceptical claims that we have no justified beliefs about the external world, the book outlines a theory of rational belief.

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'Moser has produced a foundationalist account of justification and knowledge ... that in some respects is superior to anything else in the literature.' W. Alston, Syracuse University 'Paul Moser's book is a powerful antidote to the naive but morally and intellectually damaging 'relativism', that pervades much contemporary social and literary theory, but it is much more than that. Unfashionably but persuasively, Moser defends a foundationalist epistemology and a verison of the correspondence theory of truth.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Christian Theology Philosophy Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Analytical Philosophy & Logical Positivism Philosophy & Logic

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Conditions for propositional knowledge	p. 13
Belief	p. 13
Truth as minimal correspondence	p. 23
Truth as correspondence	p. 24
The minimal correspondence definition	p. 26
Criticisms and replies	p. 29
Epistemic justification	p. 35
Conclusion	p. 45
Minimal epistemic reasons	p. 47
Minimal epistemic reasons for belief	p. 47
Propositional probability-makers	p. 52
Against the Thesis of Self-Probability	p. 55
Against Probability Infinitism	p. 56
Circular Probability and Probability Coherentism	p. 60
Summary and generalized argument	p. 63
Nonpropositional probability-makers	p. 69
Against Externalism	p. 71
Against Radical Externalism	p. 71
Against Moderate Externalism	p. 74
A positive lesson	p. 77
Internalism and unconditional probability-makers	p. 77
Modes of awareness	p. 80
Unconditional probability-makers	p. 88
Internalism unified	p. 107
Internalism and derivative probability-makers	p. 112
Nonoccurrent probability-makers and memory	p. 117
Conclusion	p. 125
Justifying epistemic reasons	p. 126
Justification and overbalancing probability	p. 126
Unconditional overbalancing probability	p. 127
Derivative overbalancing probability	p. 131
The insufficiency of overbalancing probability	p. 134
Justification and maximal probability	p. 136
Unconditional and derivative justifiers	p. 136
Justifiability and justifiedness	p. 141
Some logical matters	p. 145
Having a justifying reason for belief	p. 151
The evidential basing relation	p. 156
Against justification skepticism	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 164
Foundationalism and some alternatives	p. 166
Foundationalism is not a mistake	p. 166
Two problems for coherentism	p. 172
A dilemma for internalist coherentism	p. 173
The isolation objection	p. 176
Against epistemological behaviorism	p. 183
The given is not a myth	p. 186
Epistemic reliabilism and relevant worlds	p. 194
Three variations on reliabilism	p. 195
Normal-world reliabilism	p. 196
Reliabilism rejected	p. 202
Conclusion	p. 204
Procedural epistemic rationality	p. 205
Cartesian truth-seekers	p. 210
A plethora of epistemic objectives	p. 213
Purely quantitative approaches	p. 213
Nonquantitative approaches	p. 217
An evidential epistemic objective	p. 223
Conclusion	p. 231
Propositional knowledge	p. 232
Epistemic explanation and the Gettier problem	p. 235
Knowledge and truth-resistant evidence	p. 242
Knowledge skepticism and meta-justification	p. 255
Knowledge and a Cartesian Dreamer Hypothesis	p. 255
Explanatory particularism and the problem of the criterion	p. 260
Conclusion	p. 265
References	p. 267
Index	p. 281
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