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In his widely influential two-volume work, Warrant: The Current Debate and Warrant and Proper Function, Alvin Plantinga argued that warrant is that which explains the difference between knowledge and true belief. Plantinga not only developed his own account of warrant but also mapped the terrain of epistemology. Motivated by Plantinga's work, fourteen prominent philosophers have written new essays investigating Plantingian warrant and its contribution to contemporary epistemology. The resulting collection, representing a broad array of views, not only gives readers a critical perspective on Plantinga's landmark work, but also provides in one volume a clear statement of the variety of approaches to the nature of warrant within contemporary epistemology, and to the connections between epistemology and metaphysics. Positions covered include internalism and externalism, reliabilism, coherentism and foundationalism, virtue theories, and defensibility theories. Alvin Plantinga responds to the essays in his own contribution.
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Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2
Part I: Coherentism and InternalismChapter 3 Plantinga and Coherentisms
Chapter 4 Proper Function versus Systematic Coherence
Chapter 5 Plantinga on Knowledge and Proper Function
Chapter 6 Plantinga on Epistemic Internalism
Part 7
Part II: Defeasibility, Knowledge, and the Gettier ProblemChapter 8 Knowledge, Is Accurate and Comprehensive Enough True Belief
Chapter 9 Warrant, Proper Function, Reliabilism, and Defeasibility
Chapter 10 Warrant versus Indefeasible Justification
Part 11
Part III: NaturalismChapter 12 Science, Materialism, and False Consciousness
Chapter 13 Plantinga's Naturalism
Part 14
Part IV: Warrant, Justification, and Expert KnowledgeChapter 15 Plantinga, Gettier, and Warrant
Chapter 16 Degrees of Warrant
Chapter 17 Experts, Knowledge, and Perception
Part 18
Part V: Virtue EpistemologyChapter 19 Proper Functionalism and Virtue Epistemology
Chapter 20 Postscript to "Proper Functionalism and Virtue Epistemology"
Chapter 21 Plantinga's Proper Function Account of Warrant
Chapter 22
Part VI: Alvin Plantinga RepliesChapter 23 Respondeo
Chapter 24 Index
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Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A & M University and the author, most recently, of The Problem of Hell (Oxford University Press, 1993) and The Intellectual Virtues and the Life of the Mind (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992).
