Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgement Book

Read this book, only if you have an interest in naturalized epistemology. On the one hand, if you're not interested in epistemology or don't know what it is, then this book will be quite dry and dense for you. On the other hand, if you are interested in epistemology and have studied other books and papers on epistemology before, then you may find this book unfulfilling. Why? Because Bishop and Trout take a radically different approach to epistemology without adequately justifying their foundations. Nonetheless, their theory, Strategic Reliabilism, is an interesting theory. If you're not concerned about the problems surrounding their Aristotelian Principle (the axial pillar of their theory) or their position and flip flopping on the topic of intuition, then you may enjoy the mechanism underlying their approach to epistemology. In short, on the surface their theory seems like an adequate substitute for the old approach to epistemology. However, at the root of their theory, there are serious problems which put them along side the traditional analytic approach to epistemology.