Knowledge

Book cover of Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction

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What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream?

Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch…

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1 author picked Knowledge as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Timothy Williamson

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This is my favourite introduction to epistemology. It relates questions about knowledge and scepticism to human psychology, human knowledge to other animals’ knowledge, and the development of Western epistemology to epistemology elsewhere, such as ancient India. Amongst leading epistemologists today, Jennifer Nagel probably has the deepest understanding of relevant work in psychology.

From Timothy's list on contemporary epistemology and metaphysics.