Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science / Edition 1

by Sherrilyn Roush

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199274734
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/12/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Rice University, Texas

Table of Contents

1. Tracking: at home on the rangeAppendix A: Knowledge without justification2. Tracking with closure3. Tracking: more and better4. Tracking over the rivalsAppendix B: Sensitivity and safety5. What is evidence? Discrimination, indication, and leverageAppendix C: The likelihood ratio, high P(e), and high P(h/e)6. Real anti-realism: the evidential approach