Kevin McCain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. His published research includes Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (2014), The Nature of Scientific Knowledge: An Explanatory Approach (2016), and, with Kostas Kampourakis, Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance (2019). Kostas Kampourakis is a researcher in science education and a lecturer at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His most recent authored books are Making Sense of Genes (2017), Turning Points: How Critical Events Have Driven Human Evolution, Life and Development (2018), and, with Kevin McCain, Uncertainty: How It Makes Science Advance (2019). He has also co-edited, with Michael Reiss, Teaching Biology in Schools: Global Research, Issues and Trends (2018).
"""What is Scientific Knowledge? is a thoughtfully complied, wide-ranging, up to the minute collection of essays that is at once a tremendously valuable educational tool and a brilliant way for any philosopher to catch up with what is going on right now in the philosophy of science."" Michael Strevens, New York University ""This is an excellent volume. The editors have managed to put together a collection of chapters that is both informative and readable - no mean achievement when it comes to philosophy of science! I got a lot from reading this book."" Michael Reiss, University College London Review in Metascience (2020):Overall, the volume achieves its stated ends and it should prove useful for early undergraduate courses in scientific epistemology. Moreover, researchers interested in many of the topics contained therein will find contemporary papers worthy of consideration for their own research. Finally, for philosophers who are too busy to stay up-to-date with contemporary discussions in the various subfields of philosophy of science they are not a part of, this volume will provide an easy remedy."" Jamie Shaw, University of Toronto"