Chapter 7 — Epistemology
7.1 What Epistemology Studies
How to Do Epistemology
Conceptual Analysis and Counterexamples
Arguments
Research
The Normative Nature of Epistemology
A Preliminary Look at Knowledge
Ways of Knowing
Things You Can Know: Types of Knowledge
Truth
7.2 Knowledge
Plato and the Traditional Account of Knowledge
Problems with the Traditional Account of Knowledge
Dharmakirti's Mirage
Russell's Case
Fake Barn Country
Fixing Plato's Traditional Account of Knowledge
No False Premises
Ruling Out Defeaters and Alternatives
The Problem with Justification
7.3 Justification
The Nature of Justification
Internalism and Externalism
An Example of Internalism: Ruling Out Relevant Alternatives
An Example of Externalism: Causal Theories
Theories of Justification
Foundationalism
Coherence
The Fallible Nature of Justification
7.4 Skepticism
Global Skepticism
The Dream Argument
The Evil Demon Argument
Putnam's Brain in a Vat
General Structure of Global Skeptical Arguments
Responses to Global Skepticism
Moore
Contextualism
Skepticism in Specific Domains
7.5 Applied Epistemology
Social Epistemology
Testimony
Peer Disagreement
Group Justification
Standpoint Epistemology
Epistemic Injustice
Testimonial Injustice
Hermeneutical Injustice