Tracking Truth Knoledge, Evidence, and Science [Hardcover]

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 Truthprovides 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.

1. Tracking: at home on the range
Appendix A: Knowledge without justification
2. Tracking with closure
3. Tracking: more and better
4. Tracking over the rivals
Appendix B: Sensitivity and safety
5. What is evidence? Discrimination, indication, and leverage
Appendix C: The likelihood ratio, high P(e), and high P(h/e)
6. Real anti-realism: the evidential approach