Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology

Stephen Hetherington is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Jeremiah Joven Joaquin is Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Philippines.Mark Anthony Dacela is Associate Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Philippines.

• Editorial Introduction: Interview with Stephen Hetherington1. Epistemic Internalism’s Dilemma2. Is Epistemically Adequate Epistemology Possible?3. Elusive Epistemological Justification4. Gettieristic Scepticism5. Epistemic Disaster Averted6. Knowing Failably and Knowing Imperfectly7. Sceptical Possibilities? No Worries8. Knowledge That Works: A Tale of Two Conceptual Models9. Knowledge as Potential for Action10. Skeptical Challenges and Knowing Actions11. Some Fallibilist Knowledge: Questioning Knowledge-Attributions and Open Knowledge12. The Luck/Knowledge Incompatibility Thesis13. The Redundancy Problem: From Knowledge-Infallibilism to Knowledge-Minimalism14. And Next?15. A Life in PhilosophyBibliographyIndex

Epistemic principles can and must satisfy their own strictures. Knowledge is an all-or-nothing affair. Gettierized individuals fail to know. Skepticism is well-founded. Hetherington demurs, arguing that if epistemology abandons these assumptions, knowledge is achievable, gradable, realized in practice, consonant with epistemic vulnerability. The result is a radical, powerful reconception of epistemology.