Tracking truth: knowledge, evidence, and science

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 b...

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Main Author: Roush, Sherrilyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon Press 2005
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary: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.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229) and index
Physical Description:xi, 235 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780199274734
0199274738

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