Epistemology

References and further reading

	Chisholm, R. (1966/1977/1989) Theory of Knowledge, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1st, 2nd and 3rd edns. (The successive editions contain a general introduction to many issues in epistemology and increasingly complex foundationalist accounts of knowledge, along with versions of the defeasibility account. The first edition is a good place to begin a study of contemporary epistemology.)
	Gettier, E. (1963) ‘Is justified true belief knowledge?’, Analysis 23 (6):121–3. (This article was responsible for focusing attention on the inadequacy of characterizing knowledge as true, justified belief. Many of the most interesting contemporary issues in epistemology can be traced directly or indirectly to this article.)
	Lehrer, K. (1990) Theory of Knowledge, Boulder, CO: Westview Press. (An accessible introduction to the fundamental questions in epistemology that defends a version of coherentism as supplemented by the defeasibility account.)
	Lucey, K. (1996) On Knowing and the Known, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. (A collection of contemporary, fairly accessible articles on a wide variety of epistemic issues.)
	Moser, P. and Vander Nat, A. (1987) Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. (An accessible collection of classical and contemporary essays on a wide variety of issues in epistemology.)
	Sosa, E. (1994) Knowledge and Justification, vols 1 and 2, Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. (A comprehensive set of contemporary essays in epistemology.)