Michael Hannon, "What is the Point of Knowledge? A Function-First Epistemology" (Oxford UP, 2019)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Apr 1, 2019 · 1h 1m

Epistemologists working traditional modes have sought to discover the necessary and sufficient conditions under which one has knowledge. This has led to several tricky philosophical problems. Perhaps most notorious of these are the problems concerning skepticism. It seems that any analysis of knowledge admits of cases where the analysis is satisfied and yet knowledge has not been secured. This has led some philosophers to seek some other starting point for epistemology. Perhaps one should begin with the anti-skeptical premise that there are clear cases of knowledge, and then attempt from…