Psychology and the Goals of Epistemology

What does it take to know something, and why does the answer seem to change when more is at stake? Weatherson defends the view that knowledge depends on our interests and uses it to rethink evidence, belief and the famous puzzles of contemporary epistemology.

Brian Weatherson

A careful study of the conditions a belief must meet to count as knowledge. McBride works through basic knowledge, closure, sensitivity and safety, and shows how each answer reshapes our response to the skeptic.

Mark McBride

Should you only say what you know? Turri combines philosophy with experiments on how people actually judge assertions, and makes a strong case that knowledge is the rule we follow when we tell each other things.

John Turri

One of the great Victorian treatises on knowledge. Hobhouse builds a realist account from the ground up, starting with what we directly apprehend and moving to inference, memory, judgment and our knowledge of an external world.

L. T. Hobhouse

A clear, compact essay on the oldest question in epistemology. Rogers weighs the correspondence, coherence and pragmatist answers to what truth is and explains how belief can be justified without absolute certainty.

Arthur Kenyon Rogers