Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology: Knowing, More or Less

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Professor Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales, Australia) Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (De La Salle University, Philippines)

Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology

Knowing, More or Less

Professor Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales, Australia), Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (De La Salle University, Philippines), Mark Anthony Dacela (De La Salle University, Philippines)

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Bloomsbury Academic
27 November 2025

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Philosophy has long embraced epistemology as one of its central elements. What is knowledge? How do we gain it? Can we gain it? Or do we always deceive ourselves when thinking that we have knowledge? Are we too deeply fallible ever to know something? For centuries, these questions have helped to define and motivate epistemological research. This volume engages strikingly with them, offering some unusual answers.

Stephen Hetherington’s prominent career within epistemology has been a series of bold, varied and provocative arguments and ideas. Bringing together some elements of his unique body of writing for the first time, this collection features previously published as well as new material displaying and extending some of his highly original approaches to key issues including knowledge, justification, fallibility, scepticism and the Gettier Problem.

Advancing our understanding of the systemic nature of Hetherington’s thinking, Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology presents his distinctive perspective on some of philosophy’s central questions about knowledge – an inviting blend of forensic detail and ‘big picture’ proposals.

By: Professor Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales Australia)
Edited by: Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (De La Salle University Philippines), Mark Anthony Dacela (De La Salle University, Philippines)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9781350344952
ISBN 10: 1350344958
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 27 November 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Editorial Introduction: Interview with Stephen Hetherington 1. Epistemic Internalism’s Dilemma 2. Is Epistemically Adequate Epistemology Possible? 3. Elusive Epistemological Justification 4. Gettieristic Scepticism 5. Epistemic Disaster Averted 6. Knowing Failably and Knowing Imperfectly 7. Sceptical Possibilities? No Worries 8. Knowledge That Works: A Tale of Two Conceptual Models 9. Knowledge as Potential for Action 10. Skeptical Challenges and Knowing Actions 11. Some Fallibilist Knowledge: Questioning Knowledge-Attributions and Open Knowledge 12. The Luck/Knowledge Incompatibility Thesis 13. The Redundancy Problem: From Knowledge-Infallibilism to Knowledge-Minimalism 14. And Next? 15. A Life in Philosophy Bibliography Index

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.

Reviews for Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology: Knowing, More or Less

""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."" --Catherine Z. Elgin, Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Harvard University, USA ""This is a truly wonderful collection of challenging essays. They really bring to the fore the central, Fallibilist core of Hetherington's unique epistemology. An attitude which, in a field whose contemporary climate is still regulated by fashionistas and cliquey citation practices, continues to be a breath of fresh air."" --Anthony Booth, Professor of Ethics and Epistemology, University of Sussex, UK