Martin Smith completed a PhD at the Australian National University in 2005 and relocated to the UK in 2006. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

• Introduction: The Risk Minimisation Conception of Justification ; 1. Two Epistemic Goals ; 2. What Justifies Belief ; 3. Justification and Lotteries ; 4. Multiple Premise Closure ; 5. Comparative Justification ; 6. Protection from Error ; 7. Similar Worlds, Normal Worlds ; 8. Introducing Degrees ; 9. Refining Risk Minimisation: The Impossibility Results ; Bibliography ; Index

Smith's book provides a highly original account of perhaps the central concept in epistemology, one that offers fertile ground for exploring just about every conceivable topic and idea of central interest to the field, new and old. I suspect that those who are newly introduced to the theory of knowledge will take to it like moths to a flame, and I hope that veterans will set aside their preconceptions and take it seriously as a force to be reckoned with.

Martin Smith completed a PhD at the Australian National University in 2005 and relocated to the UK in 2006. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

• Introduction: The Risk Minimisation Conception of Justification ; 1. Two Epistemic Goals ; 2. What Justifies Belief ; 3. Justification and Lotteries ; 4. Multiple Premise Closure ; 5. Comparative Justification ; 6. Protection from Error ; 7. Similar Worlds, Normal Worlds ; 8. Introducing Degrees ; 9. Refining Risk Minimisation: The Impossibility Results ; Bibliography ; Index

Smith's book provides a highly original account of perhaps the central concept in epistemology, one that offers fertile ground for exploring just about every conceivable topic and idea of central interest to the field, new and old. I suspect that those who are newly introduced to the theory of knowledge will take to it like moths to a flame, and I hope that veterans will set aside their preconceptions and take it seriously as a force to be reckoned with.

Martin Smith completed a PhD at the Australian National University in 2005 and relocated to the UK in 2006. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

• Introduction: The Risk Minimisation Conception of Justification ; 1. Two Epistemic Goals ; 2. What Justifies Belief ; 3. Justification and Lotteries ; 4. Multiple Premise Closure ; 5. Comparative Justification ; 6. Protection from Error ; 7. Similar Worlds, Normal Worlds ; 8. Introducing Degrees ; 9. Refining Risk Minimisation: The Impossibility Results ; Bibliography ; Index

Smith's book provides a highly original account of perhaps the central concept in epistemology, one that offers fertile ground for exploring just about every conceivable topic and idea of central interest to the field, new and old. I suspect that those who are newly introduced to the theory of knowledge will take to it like moths to a flame, and I hope that veterans will set aside their preconceptions and take it seriously as a force to be reckoned with.