Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199274734)

Sherrilyn Roush defends a new theory of knowledge and evidence, based on the idea of "tracking" the truth, as the best approach to a wide range of questions about knowledge-related phenomena. The theory explains, for example, why scepticism is frustrating, why knowledge is power, and why better evidence makes you more likely to have knowledge. Tracking Truth provides a unification of the concepts of knowledge and evidence, and argues against traditional epistemological realist and anti-realist positions about scientific theories and for a piecemeal approach based on a criterion of evidence, a position Roush calls "real anti-realism." Epistemologists and philosophers of science will recognize this as a significant original contribution.

Author: Sherrilyn Roush
ISBN-10: 0199274738
ISBN-13: 9780199274734
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2006
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.40w x 0.78d