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A Companion to Epistemology, 2nd


Edition
Jonathan Dancy (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor), Matthias Steup (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3900-7
832 pages
January 2010, Wiley-Blackwell

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Description
With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this
companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide to epistemology.
Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of296 articles on important epistemological concepts that have been
extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting
developments in the field
Includes20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologists
Contains10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology

Table of Contents
List of Contributors xiii
Preface to the First Edition xix
Preface to the Second Edition xxiii
Part I Ten Review Essays 1
Skepticism and Closure Anthony Brueckner 3

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Author Information
Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin. He is
the author of Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (Blackwell, 1985), Berkeley (1987), Moral Reasons (Blackwell,
1992) and Ethics without Principles (2004).

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Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. He is the author of Epistemic Justification:
Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (together with Laurence BonJour) in the Wiley-Blackwell series
Great Debates in Philosophy (2003), A Virtue Epistemology; Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume I (2007), and
Reflective Knowledge; Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume II (2009). His publications also include his replies for
the volume Sosa and His Critics (edited by John Greco, 2004) in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophers and Their

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New to This Edition


Comprised of over 280 A-Z entries from leading experts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume
up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field
Includes a new section on review essays on basic problems to introduce readers to the main issues in the field
Includes new self-profile section with 20 entries by renowned epistemologists
Encyclopedic section extensively revised with new entries

The Wiley Advantage


The most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guideto epistemology
Comprises over 260 A-Z entries from leading experts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume upto-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field
Includes a new sectionof review essays on basic problems to introduce readers to the main issues in the field
Includes a new self-profile section with 20 entries by renowned epistemologists

Reviews
"Recommended. Libraries supporting lower-level undergraduates through graduate students". (Choice, October
2010)
"This excellent new edition of A Companion to Epistemology offers a thoroughly comprehensive, authoritative and
cutting-edge overview of the field. It will, I'm sure, be indispensable to those working in this area for many years to
come."
Duncan Pritchard, University of Edinburgh
A comprehensive guide to epistemology. The new sections and enlargements make the Companion unique among
guides to epistemology. I recommend it highly to students as well as seasoned epistemologists.

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