Sherrilyn Roush - Tracking Truth. Knowledge, Evidence, and Science [2006][A]

Book Description
Publication Date: January 12, 2006
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.

Reviews
Provides a sustained and ambitious development of the basic idea that knowledge is true belief that tracks the truth... excellent. Eric Christian Barnes, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Sherrilyn Roush's exemplary breathes life into what I would have sworn was a moribund philosophical project. Kenny Easwaran, Mind Journal

The central ideas in Roush's book focus on applying some of Nozick's ideas both to standard epistemological conundrums and to live issues in philosophy of science. The resulting tour de force is interesting and though-provoking. Horacio Arlo-Costa, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

About the Author
Sherrilyn Roush is at Rice University, Texas.