An Overview of Alvin Goldman's Epistemology

The American philosopher, Alvin Goldman, was born in 1938. Currently he is a professor of philosophy in Rutgers University in the US. Most of his philosophical works are in the fields of "action theory", epistemology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive sciences. In the contemporary epistemology, Goldman is an eminent figure of whom we hear repeatedly in discussions concerning justification, causal theory of knowledge, reliablism, social epistemology, and scientific epistemology. This article is an overview of some of Goldman's ideas in the field of contemporary epistemology.