One of the most firmly entrenched beliefs of contemporary philosophy is that the only way to analyze a concept is to state its truth conditions. In epistemology

With one exception, all of the papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference held in April, 1978, at The Ohio State University. The excep tion

Providing a clear and accessible introduction to epistemology or the theory of knowledge, this book discusses some of the main theories of justification, includ

Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.

Epistemic Justification collects twelve distinguished and influential essays in epistemology by William P. Alston taken from a body of work spanning almost two