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K. McCain, K. Kampourakis (Eds.) (2019) What is Scientific Knowledge? An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology of Science. New York: Routledge.

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Read also excerpts from book reviews:

• by Jamie Shaw in Metascience: “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.”
• by Andrea Durlo in The British Journal for the History of Science: “In the panorama of the history of science and epistemology in particular, McCain and Kampourakis’s collection constitutes an extremely interesting proposal for the development of an epistemology of contemporary research. The authors successfully take up the challenge of tackling this topic and offer the public a text that can usher in a fruitful trend of philosophical–scientific investigations. Precisely because of its deliberately introductory nature to the question of the epistemology of science, this volume is recommended both to students of philosophy or non-experts and to all those who, working in the fields of science, are interested in approaching and deepening the fundamental debates on scientific knowledge.”