Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science

Tracking Truth presents a unified treatment of knowledge, evidence, and epistemological realism and anti-realism about scientific theories. A wide range of knowledge-related phenomena, especially but not only in science, strongly favour the idea of tracking as the key to what makes something knowledge. A subject who tracks the truth—an idea first formulated by Robert Nozick—has the ability to follow the truth through time and changing circumstances. Epistemologists rightly concluded that Nozi…