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Epistemology What it is and Why You Should Care

By Michael Veber Copyright 2026
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Epistemology: What it is and Why You Should Care tackles the question undergraduates often ask when they first confront any subject: “Who cares?!” Michael Veber argues that epistemology—like water to fish—is often invisible yet essential to our lives. He shows how controversial assumptions about knowledge and inquiry are fundamental and pervasive, shaping even our simplest efforts to understand... Read more

Introduction

1. What’s that Even Mean? Short History of a Long Word

2. The Most Fundamental Things

3. Are there Philosophical Facts? Epistemology and The Anti-Philosophy Philosophy

4. What the Anti-Philosophy Philosophy Can Teach Us About Epistemology 

5. Empiricism and the Art of Murder: The Epistemology of Armchair Detective Work

6. Knowledge by Reason Alone? Empiricism and the Problem of A Priori Knowledge 

7. A Fork in the Road: Logical Empiricism

8. Epistemology Gets Rad: Mill and Quine 

9. Epistemology Gets Trad: Rationalism about the A priori  

10. The Theory of Inquiry: Peirce and the Flat Earthers 

Glossary of Terms

Biography

Michael Veber is Associate Professor of Philosophy at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, USA. He is the author of Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Dialogues in Epistemology (2019).