Richard Feldman | |
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Awards | Mellon Fellow, William H. Riker University Award for Graduate Teaching, Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship |
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Education | University of Massachusetts (PhD), Cornell University (BA) |
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Institutions | University of Rochester |
Main interests | epistemology,metaphysics |
Richard Feldman is an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. He is known for his works on epistemology. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Feldman served as interim president of the University of Rochester from 2018-2019. [7]
William Payne Alston was an American philosopher. He is widely considered to be one of the most important epistemologists and philosophers of religion of the twentieth century,and is also known for his work in metaphysics and the philosophy of language. His views on foundationalism,internalism and externalism,speech acts,and the epistemic value of mystical experience,among many other topics,have been very influential. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and taught at the University of Michigan,Rutgers University,University of Illinois,and Syracuse University.
Roderick Milton Chisholm was an American philosopher known for his work on epistemology,metaphysics,free will,value theory,deontology,deontic logic and the philosophy of perception.
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski is an American philosopher. She is the Emerita George Lynn Cross Research Professor,as well as Emerita Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics,at the University of Oklahoma. She writes in the areas of epistemology,philosophy of religion,and virtue theory.
In the philosophy of religion,Reformed epistemology is a school of philosophical thought concerning the nature of knowledge (epistemology) as it applies to religious beliefs. The central proposition of Reformed epistemology is that beliefs can be justified by more than evidence alone,contrary to the positions of evidentialism,which argues that while non-evidential belief may be beneficial,it violates some epistemic duty. Central to Reformed epistemology is the proposition that belief in God may be "properly basic" and not need to be inferred from other truths to be rationally warranted. William Lane Craig describes Reformed epistemology as "One of the most significant developments in contemporary religious epistemology ... which directly assaults the evidentialist construal of rationality."
Naturalized epistemology is a collection of philosophic views about the theory of knowledge that emphasize the role of natural scientific methods. This shared emphasis on scientific methods of studying knowledge shifts the focus of epistemology away from many traditional philosophical questions,and towards the empirical processes of knowledge acquisition. There are noteworthy distinctions within naturalized epistemology. Replacement naturalism maintains that we should abandon traditional epistemology and replace it with the methodologies of the natural sciences. The general thesis of cooperative naturalism is that traditional epistemology can benefit in its inquiry by using the knowledge we have gained from cognitive sciences. Substantive naturalism focuses on an asserted equality of facts of knowledge and natural facts.
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Fred Feldman is an American philosopher who specializes in ethical theory. He is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,where he taught from 1969 until his retirement in 2013. His research primarily focuses on normative ethics,metaethics,the nature of happiness,and justice. He has long been fascinated by philosophical problems about the nature and value of death. He received a NEH research fellowship for the academic year of 2008/09;he received a Conti Faculty research fellowship for the academic year of 2013/14.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to epistemology:
Religious epistemology broadly covers religious approaches to epistemological questions,or attempts to understand the epistemological issues that come from religious belief. The questions asked by epistemologists apply to religious beliefs and propositions whether they seem rational,justified,warranted,reasonable,based on evidence and so on. Religious views also influence epistemological theories,such as in the case of Reformed epistemology.
Richard Anthony Fumerton is a Canadian American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa with research interests in epistemology,metaphysics,philosophy of mind and value theory. He has been cited as an influential expert on the position of "metaepistemological scepticism". He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1971 and his M.A. and PhD from Brown University in 1973 and 1974,respectively. He has been the F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iowa since 2003.
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Donald C. Ainslie is a Canadian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is known for his works on early modern philosophy and bioethics. Ainslie served as Principal of University College,Toronto between 2011 and 2020. He is a winner of the Journal of the History of Philosophy prize in 2016 for his book Hume’s True Scepticism.
Marta Ruiz Jiménez is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Emory University. She is known for her works on Aristotle.
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George Bealer was an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Yale University. He is known for his works on philosophy of mind and epistemology.