Tracking Truth : Knowledge, Evidence, and Science
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780199274734
- ISBN-10: 0199274738
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publish Date: January 2006
- Dimensions: 9.24 x 6.4 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 248
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