Jonathan Dancy & Ernest Sosa 
A Companion to Epistemology 

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 of 296 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

* Includes 20 new self-profiles by leading
epistemologists

* Contains 10 new review essays on central issues of
epistemology

Table of Content

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

Contextualism Richard Feldman 12

Foundations and Coherence Michael Huemer 22

Recent Work on the Internalism-Externalism
Controversy Laurence Bon Jour 33

A Priori Knowledge Albert Casullo 43

The Common Sense Tradition Noah Lemos 53

The Power of Perception Peter Markie 62

Virtue Epistemology John Greco 75

Social Epistemology Alvin Goldman 82

Bayesian Epistemology Alan Hájek and Stephan
Hartmann 93

Part II Twenty Epistemological Self-profiles 107

Robert Audi 109

Laurence Bon Jour 114

Stewart Cohen 118

Earl Conee and Richard Feldman 123

Fred Dretske 130

Richard Foley 134

Richard Fumerton 139

Alvin I. Goldman 144

Gilbert Harman 152

Peter Klein 156

Hilary Kornblith 163

Keith Lehrer 168

Alvin Plantinga 173

John Pollock 178

Ernest Sosa 185

Barry Stroud 190

Michael Williams 194

Timothy Williamson 199

Crispin Wright 204

Linda Zagzebski 210

Part III Epistemology from A to Z 217

About the author

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).

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 Bon Jour) 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 Critics, as well as
numerous articles.

Matthias Steup is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue
University. He is the author of An Introduction to Contemporary
Epistemology (1996) and many articles in epistemology. He
edited Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic
Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue (2001), and he is
co-editor with Ernest Sosa of Contemporary Debates in
Epistemology (Blackwell, 2005).