Barry Stroud has, since the 1970s, been a key contributor to the philosophical study of human knowledge. This book presents the best of his essays in this area. More than half are concerned with identifying clearly the question or issue that philosophical theories of knowledge are meant to answer.[...]

This volume of uncollected essays by Barry Stroud explores central issues and ideas in the work of individual philosophers, ranging from Descartes, Berkeley, Locke, and Hume to Quine, Burge, McDowell, Goldman, Fogelin, and Sosa in our own day. Seven of the essays focus on David Hume, and examine the[...]