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This collection of essays explores the philosophy of human knowledge from a multitude of perspectives, with a particular emphasis upon the justification component of the classical analysis of knowledge and with an excursion along the way to explore the role of knowledge in Texas Hold ´Em poker.

An important theme of the collection is the role of knowledge in religion, including a detailed argument for agnosticism. A number of the essays touch upon issues in philosophical logic, among them a fascinating new counter-example to Modus Ponens. The collection is rounded out with essays on causality and the philosophy of mind.

The author´s perspective on the philosophy of human knowledge is fresh and challenging, as evidenced by essays entitled "On Epistemic Preferability;" "On Being Unjustified;" "The Logic of ´Unless´" and "Is ´This sentence is true.´ True?"

An interesting feature of The Logic of Philosophy: Pesky Essays is the inclusion of responses to several of its key essays, contributed by such prominent contemporary philosophers as Roderick Chisholm, Ted Sider and Tomas Kapitan.

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Introduction.- Knowledge & Justification.- What is Knowing ?.- Scales of Epistemic Appraisal.- On Epistemic Preferability.- On Being Unjustified.- "I Should Have Known It!": Gilbert Ryle and Poker Knowledge.- Philosophy of Religion.- An Agnostic Argument.- "Lucey´s Agnosticism: The Believer´s Reply by Tomis Kapitan.- Theism, Necessity and Invalidity.- Logical Form and the Ontological Argument.- Philosophical Logic.- Kant´s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction.- A New Counter-Example to Modus Ponens.- Comments on Lucey´s "An Invalid Instance of Modus Ponens " by Ted Sider.- The Ancestral Relation Without Classes.- Laws of Excluded Middle And a Temporal Dilemma.- The Logic of ´Unless´.- Harry Frankfurt on Why We Care About Truth.- Causality and the Mind.- An Analysis of Causal Contribution; (co-authored with Carol A. Lucey).- The Testability of the Identity Theory.- On Being Purely Psychological.- "Comments on Lucey´s Paper" by R. M. Chisholm.-Ontological Parasites.- Is There A Set of All Truths?.- The Generalization Argument Defended.-Taxonomies & Teaching.- Rudolf Carnap on False Propositions & Specificity.

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Kenneth Lucey is Sanford Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno, U.S.A. He is a philosophical generalist with wide interests in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion and philosophical logic.

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