Abstract
A. Knowledge and Justification: The nature of epistemic justification and its supervenience.
B. Understanding and Validation: Two projects of epistemology, one to understand justification, the other to promote it.
C. Epistemic Rationalism: A simple foundationalism of intuition and deduction.
D. Reliabilism: A broader foundationalism.
E. Foundationalism Assailed.
F. Nature Unmirrored: Rorty reviewed.
G. Reliabilist Foundationalism: Two problems.
H. Coherence: A more radical response to the failure of rationalism.
I. Perspectival Coherence: The requirement of an epistemic perspective and its relation to foundationalism.
J. Epistemology of Epistemology.
K. How to Naturalize Epistemology: Quine reviewed.
L. Epistemology Naturalized: Through the Project of Validation.
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Sosa, E. Nature unmirrored, epistemology naturalized. Synthese 55, 49–72 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485373
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