Tracking Truth

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.