The Access to Philosophy series offers a concise and readable introduction to key areas of philosophy for students and the general reader. The Theory of Knowledge explores the nature and extent of knowledge. It looks at the key What do we know? How do we know it? and analyses our right to the beliefs we have, how we acquire them and whether we can take them to be knowledge.
Peter Cole has published several books of poems and many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic, both medieval and modern. He has received numerous honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and in 2007 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.