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Michael Huemer
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The world's best introduction to epistemology, Understanding Knowledge discusses basic philosophical problems in epistemology, including such questions as:
- What is knowledge?
- How can we know about the world outside our minds?
- How do we know about things that are unobservable?
- Are intuitions a legitimate source of knowledge?
- What justifies any of our beliefs?
The text clearly and succinctly explains the most important theories and arguments about these things, and it does so a lot less boringly than most books written by professors.
Michael Huemer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, where he has taught since the dawn of time. He is the author of a nearly infinite number of articles in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy, plus eight and a half other amazing and brilliant books that you should immediately buy.
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