Guided by the founding ideas of American pragmatism, Epistemology provides a clear example of the basic concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and explains the principles at work in the development of rational inquiry. It examines how these principles analyze the course of scientific progress and how the development of scientific inquiry inevitably encounters certain natural disasters. At the center of the book’s deliberations there lies not only the potential for scientific progress but also the limit of science as well. This comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge addresses a myriad of topics, including the critique of skepticism, the nature of rationality, the possibility of science for extraterrestrial intelligences, and the prospect of insoluble issues in science.

在美国实用主义创始思想的指导下，《认识论》对知识获取所涉及的基本概念进行了清晰的说明，并解释了在理性探索的发展中起作用的原则。它研究了这些原则如何分析科学进步的过程，以及科学探索的发展如何不可避免地遇到某些自然灾害。在本书讨论的中心，不仅有科学进步的潜力，也有科学的局限。这本关于知识理论的综合介绍涉及到无数的话题，包括对怀疑论的批判，理性的本质，外星智能体的科学可能性，以及科学中无法解决的问题的前景。