Epistemology, or The Theory of Knowledge: Volume 1

The best place to start if epistemology is new to you. Eight short chapters walk through the analysis of knowledge, justification, skepticism, rationalism and empiricism, epistemic virtue, probability and social epistemology, each written for first-year students.

Brian C. Barnett (Editor)

A complete university course on the theory of knowledge, organized in five modules: what knowledge is, its sources, rationalism and empiricism, the major theories of truth, and skepticism. Each unit ends with self-assessment questions, so it works well for self-study.

Adekunle Ibrahim

A compact course in classical epistemology from a Thomistic professor at Georgetown. In 21 short chapters it tackles certitude, universal skepticism, the Cartesian doubt, Kant, pragmatism and human testimony, defending a common-sense realism along the way.

John J. Toohey

A readable introduction to the theory of knowledge by a pragmatist philosopher and student of William James. Boodin asks what makes an idea true and how our knowledge connects to reality, in short chapters that still feel lively more than a century later.

John Elof Boodin

The second volume completes Coffey's survey with sense perception, our knowledge of the external world, and the criteria and motives of truth and certitude. A thorough guide to how the realist tradition answers the skeptic.

P. Coffey