Knowledge and its challenges: Kevin McCain: Epistemology: 50 puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. New York: Routledge, 2021, 262 pp, £18.39 PB [Book Review]

Metascience 31 (1):121-123 (2022)
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Review of Epistemology: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments by Kevin McCain (Routledge, 2021)

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