Alvin Goldman, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has been one of the leading epistemologists of the last 40 years, championing the causal theory of knowing, process reliabilism, epistemic externalism, and social epistemology. He is a leading proponent of the simulation theory of mindreading and a major contributor to the metaphysics of action. He has long practiced interdisciplinary philosophy, with links to cognitive science, law, political theory, and economics.

• Introduction ; 1. What Is Justified Belief? ; 2. Immediate Justification and Process Reliabilism ; 3. Reliabilism ; 4. Internalism, Externalism, and the Architecture of Justification ; 5. Toward a Synthesis of Reliabilism and Evidentialism ; 6. Reliabilism and Value of Knowledge (with Erik Olsson) ; 7. Williamson on Knowledge and Evidence ; 8. Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement ; 9. A Guide to Social Epistemology ; 10. Why Social Epistemology is Real Epistemology ; 11. Philosophical Naturalism and Intuitional Methodology

Alvin Goldman, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has been one of the leading epistemologists of the last 40 years, championing the causal theory of knowing, process reliabilism, epistemic externalism, and social epistemology. He is a leading proponent of the simulation theory of mindreading and a major contributor to the metaphysics of action. He has long practiced interdisciplinary philosophy, with links to cognitive science, law, political theory, and economics.

• Introduction ; 1. What Is Justified Belief? ; 2. Immediate Justification and Process Reliabilism ; 3. Reliabilism ; 4. Internalism, Externalism, and the Architecture of Justification ; 5. Toward a Synthesis of Reliabilism and Evidentialism ; 6. Reliabilism and Value of Knowledge (with Erik Olsson) ; 7. Williamson on Knowledge and Evidence ; 8. Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement ; 9. A Guide to Social Epistemology ; 10. Why Social Epistemology is Real Epistemology ; 11. Philosophical Naturalism and Intuitional Methodology

Alvin Goldman, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has been one of the leading epistemologists of the last 40 years, championing the causal theory of knowing, process reliabilism, epistemic externalism, and social epistemology. He is a leading proponent of the simulation theory of mindreading and a major contributor to the metaphysics of action. He has long practiced interdisciplinary philosophy, with links to cognitive science, law, political theory, and economics.

• Introduction ; 1. What Is Justified Belief? ; 2. Immediate Justification and Process Reliabilism ; 3. Reliabilism ; 4. Internalism, Externalism, and the Architecture of Justification ; 5. Toward a Synthesis of Reliabilism and Evidentialism ; 6. Reliabilism and Value of Knowledge (with Erik Olsson) ; 7. Williamson on Knowledge and Evidence ; 8. Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable Disagreement ; 9. A Guide to Social Epistemology ; 10. Why Social Epistemology is Real Epistemology ; 11. Philosophical Naturalism and Intuitional Methodology