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[Joseph Maynor]

There are really no good books on epistemology.  

[Nemra]

1 hour ago, Joseph Maynor said:

There are really no good books on epistemology.  

What makes you say that?

Is there at least one book you consider to be good compared to other books?

Edited 16 hours ago by Nemra

[UnbornTao]

2 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

There are really no good books on epistemology.  

Heresy. I'm sure there are, even if they aren't strictly or formally framed as 'epistemological' works.

Gotta take a look at Being and Time and The Critique of Pure Reason.

Edited 15 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Joseph Maynor]

Ok, if I had to pick one maybe The Meditations by Descartes.

[Joseph Maynor]

The reason I say there are no good books on epistemology is because the knowing process ultimately cannot be outsourced.  Only the knower can discern the knowing process by direct experience not by hearsay.

[Joseph Maynor]

This is a reasonably good book on epistemology, although dense, that I read when I was a philosophy student at University.

https://www.amazon.com/Epistemology-Contemporary-Introduction-Introductions-Philosophy/dp/0415281091

Here's another one that I read when I was first getting into philosophy.  

https://www.amazon.com/Problems-Philosophy-Bertrand-Russell/dp/1534863443

You could list Kant's Critique of Pure Reason if you want to, but I'm not a huge fan of Kant.  Same comment applies to Hume and Locke, I'm not a huge fan.

Another work that touches epistemology that I like somewhat but also find stilted.

https://www.amazon.com/Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus-Ludwig-Wittgenstein/dp/0486404455

This one is good for understanding epistemology as it was worked out in British Empiricism.  I like this work and Bacon.  He's very different from Hobbes, Locke and Hume who he influenced.

https://www.amazon.com/Francis-Bacon-Organon-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/0521564832

This is probably one of my favorite books that covers epistemology by G.E. Moore

https://www.amazon.com/Some-Problems-Philosophy-Muirhead-Library/dp/B00CS7HL7I

The Nyaya Sutras by Gautama is the classic Hindu text on epistemology.  I can't find a version to recommend because I read the full version many years ago.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyāya_Sūtras

Edited 10 hours ago by Joseph Maynor

[Nemra]

@Joseph Maynor, thank you.