Oxford Studies in Epistemology

Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a biennial publication which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America Europe and Australasia it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: <BR>*traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief justification and knowledge the status of scepticism the nature of the a priori etc; <BR>*new developments in epistemology including movements such as naturalized epistemology feminist epistemology social epistemology and virtue epistemology and approaches such as contextualism; <BR>*foundational questions in decision-theory; <BR>*confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology; <BR>*topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology; <BR>*topics in cognitive science computer science developmental cognitive and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions; and <BR>*work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy including work on testimony and the ethics of belief. <BR>Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.<BR>