OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction

Detailed, accurate and wonderfully enjoyable read.

Excelente lectura tanto para el lector que inicia su formación en epistemología como para el investigador que busca formas diversas de expresar problemas básicos del área.

I am very fond of the VSI series. This book does justice to a fairly complex topic such as knowledge.

I bought this book on the basis of a very enthusiastic review in the Guardian and the high expectations which the review raised were more than met. The book sets out some complex in clear and accessible language, being 'popular' without ever becoming patronising. The book combines approaches by classic thinkers, such as Descartes, with more recent work and has a useful set of references at the back for those who want to explore issues in more detail. It is very fair-minded to those whose work it discusses, pointing out the objections which can be raised to each approach and showing how different schools of thought would reply to each other. I actually found it to be a 'gripping' read and I have already recommended this book to other people. It is a great addition to this excellent series. I found the one-star reviews of this book bewildering - but then, as my grandmother liked to say, some people like carrots and others prefer turnips! I intend to see what else this author has written although I do not imagine it will be as accessible as this introductory guide.

Not quite as advanced as what I was hoping for, but this is an excellent overview of a complex field. The book is particularly well adapted to those just beginning to think through what knowledge is, how one can acquire it, and what makes it valid.