Knowledge: A Human Interest Story
Brian Weatherson
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.
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