Goldman and His Critics

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Brian P. McLaughlin, Hilary Kornblith
John Wiley & Sons, Oct 17, 2016 - Philosophy - 400 pages
Goldman and His Critics presents a series of original essays contributed by influential philosophers who critically examine Alvin Goldman’s work, followed by Goldman’s responses to each essay.
  • Critiques Alvin Goldman’s groundbreaking theories, writings, and ideas on a range of philosophical topics
  • Features contributions from some of the most important and influential contemporary philosophers
  • Covers Goldman’s views on epistemology—both individual and social—in addition to cognitive science and metaphysics
  • Pays special attention to Goldman’s writings on philosophy of mind, including the evolution of his thoughts on Simulation-Theory (ST)
 

Contents

Internalism Reliabilism and Deontology
3
Reply to Michael Williams
19
Historical versus Current Time Slice Theories in Epistemology
43
Evidentialism Reliabilism
69
Unreliable Testimony
88
Epistemological TroubleShooting and Social Epistemology
125
A naturalistic Approach to the Generality Problem
178
Veritism and Epistemic Value
200
Cognitive Science Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics
235
Goldman on Knowledge of Mind
259
Is Altercentric Bias Compatible with
280
From Simulation Theory
297
Will We Know It When We See It?
318
Partners in Debunking
337
Alvin Goldmans Publications
369
Index
379

The Condorcet Jury Theorem and VoterSpecific Truth
219

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About the author (2016)

Hilary Kornblith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. He is the author of Inductive Inference and its Natural Ground (1993); Knowledge and its Place in Nature (2002); On Reflection (2012); and A Naturalistic Epistemology: Selected Papers (2014).

Brian P. McLaughlin is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He has published numerous articles on topics relating to the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of psychology, and metaphysics.

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