Tracking truth : knowledge, evidence, and science / Sherrilyn Roush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roush, Sherrilyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Evidence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracking Truth presents a unified treatment of knowledge, evidence, and epistemological realism and anti-realism about scientific theories. A wide range of knowledge-related phenomena, especially but not only in science, strongly favour the idea of tracking as the key to what makes something knowledge. A subject who tracks the truth - an idea first formulated by Robert Nozick - has the ability to follow the truth through time and changing circumstances. Epistemologistsrightly concluded that Nozick's theory was not viable, but a simple revision of that view is not only viable but superior to ot

Contents:

Contents; 1. Tracking: At Home on the Range; 2. Tracking with Closure; 3. Tracking: More and Better; 4. Tracking over the Rivals; 5. What is Evidence? Discrimination, Indication, and Leverage; 6. Real Anti-realism: The Evidential Approach; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-923293-8

1-281-19842-0

9786611198428

0-19-153448-X

1-4356-2306-1

OCLC:

746747096