Externalism about Knowledge

Externalism about knowledge is thriving in contemporary epistemology. Nonetheless, externalism is too often caricatured as merely reliabilism, too often reduced to simply externalism about justification, and rarely considered as a cohesive family of related but importantly different views. Externalism About Knowledge addresses all of these issues by bringing new essays from leading externalist epistemologists working on seven different branches of this tradition: process reliabilism, tracking views, safety views, virtue epistemology, proper functionalism, naturalized epistemology, and knowledge first epistemology. This collection highlights their unity, their differences, their interconnections, and their most recent challenges, developments, and extensions.

1 - Methods, Processes, and Knowledge
2 - Surprise! A Social Meta-Epistemology for Process Reliabilism
3 - Sensitivity, Discrimination, and Perspective
4 - Knowledge, Evidence, and Naked Statistics
5 - Moderate Knowledge Externalism
6 - The Safety Conception of Knowledge
7 - Default Assumptions and Pure Thought
8 - Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Responsibility
9 - Proper Functionalism and the Organizational Theory of Functions
10 - An Explanationist Defense of Proper Functionalism
11 - Naturalism, Externalism, and Naturalistic Externalism
12 - How Naturalists can Give Internalists What They Really Want (or Need!)
13 - Externalism Explained
14 - Boghossian, Müller-Lyer, the Parrot, and the Nazi

Luis R. G. Oliveira received his BA from Calvin College and his MA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is now an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. Professor Oliveira has co-edited two books and published numerous papers in academic journals and book collections on various topics in Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, and Ethics. He is the director of the international project LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion.