Yes, But How Do You Know?

Yes, But How Do You Know? is an invitation to think philosophically through the use of sceptical ideas. Hetherington challenges our complacency and asks us to reconsider what we think we know. How much can we discover about our surroundings? What sort of beings are we? Can we trust our own reasoning? Is science all it is cracked up to be? Can we acquire knowledge of God? Are even the contents of our own minds transparent? In inviting, lucid prose, Hetherington addresses these questions and more, using skepticism to illuminate many perennial philosophical puzzles.

Stephen Hetherington is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He has written a range of books on epistemology - Epistemology’s Paradox (1992), Knowledge Puzzles (1996), Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (2001) and Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy! (2003). He has also edited Epistemology Futures (2006) and Aspects of Knowing (2006).