On Knowing and the Known

What do we mean when we say we "know" something? What is this knowledge and how do we come by it? What exactly counts as an object of knowledge? And on what basis do we defend our claims to know against thosethe skepticswho deny that knowledge is possible or that our criteria for knowing can ever be satisfied?These questions and many others are addressed in this fascinating collection of essays by leading philosophers, who discuss the nature, meaning, and extent of human knowledge. Included are works by Robert Almeder, William P. Alston, Robert P. Amico, Roderick M. Chisholm, Edmund L. Gettier, Richard Feldman, Peter D. Klein, Keith Lehrer, Kenneth G. Lucey, John Pollock, and others. Several essays are original to this collection and break new ground on such issues as the Problem of the Criterion.

Kenneth G. Lucey is professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of a Pesky Essays on the Logic of Philosophy  (Springer, 2015), a collection of both new and previously published essays concerning the application of logic to various problems of philosophy. He is also the editor of On Knowing and the Known: Introductory Readings in Epistemology (Prometheus Books, 1996) and of What Is God? The Selected Essays of Richard R. La Croix (Prometheus Books, 1993). He is co-editor, with Tibor Machan, of Recent Work in Philosophy (Rowman and Allanheld, 1983) and has published papers in all his areas of specialization.