Longing to Know
The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People

One of my favorite books of the year, and one whose ideas I see becoming a permanent fixture in my mind. Why do we need to know how we know? I'm still not sure I can articulate a compelling reason, but I do know that it's an absolutely fascinating study and that this book was inspiring on many levels......more

In college (crazy that that's now past tense!), I’d feel a wave of frustration when people asked me what I was learning. I could usually spit out the thesis of an essay I was working on or summarize a book I’d just read but internally there would be this creeping sense of panic. What was I actually......more

The author Esther Lightcap Meek teaches philosophy at Covenant Theological Seminary and has written this work as an introduction to epistemology for ordinary people. Her chief thesis is that knowing God is like knowing about ordinary things in life such as the auto mechanic. In fact, knowing the aut......more

I expected to like this book a lot more than I did. I'm glad Professor Meek is calling her readers, as she has her students, away from silly, extreme versions of epistemology. She doesn't identify the "bad" epistemology (really, several different epistemologies) she opposes—could be Logical Positivis......more

- Knowing God requires being known by God. - Knowing involves commitment, humility, respect, and patience. - Knowing involves terror: “But don’t run. Seated on the back of a loving lion, as Lucy found, is the best of all possible places to be.”......more