Book: Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, John L. Pollock and Joseph Cruz, 2nd edition, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, Saul Traiger: "If we may judge by the publication of general introductions to the subject, the field of epistemology is alive and well. Pollock and Cruz’s Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, the second edition of John Pollock’s early book (1986) of the same title, occupies a field that includes Jonathan Dancy’s Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (1985), Michael Williams’ second edition of Groundless Belief (1999), and his more recent Problems of nowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology (2001), Laurence BonJour’s Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary responses (2002), and Michael Welbourne’s Knowledge (2001), to name just a few. Each book takes us on a tour of 20th century epistemology, from foundationalism to coherentism and naturalized epistemology. Among these epistemologists, however, only Pollock and Cruz can really lay claim to ultimately doing some form of naturalized epistemology itself. Although Contemporary Theories of Knowledge begins with traditional Cartesian skepticism, it ends with a presentation of what Pollock and Cruz call ‘direct realism,’ much of the support for which comes from Pollock’s OSCAR Project, an attempt to build what he has called an ‘artilect,’ an artificial reasoner." more (PDF) 点击浏览该文件