Barry Allen received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1986. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Hebrew University, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy and is an associate editor at the interdisciplinary journal Common Knowledge.

• Introduction, PART ONE: KNOWLEDGE, 1 What Was Epistemology?, 2 The Art of Knowledge, PART TWO: SOME PHILOSOPHERS, 3 Dionysian Epistemology: Nietzsche's Idea of Knowledge, 4 Stuck in the Order of Discourse: Foucault's Idea of Knowledge, 5 Turning Back the Linguistic Turn: Rorty's Idea of Knowledge, PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE, EVOLUTION, CIVILIZATION, 6 Evolving Knowledge, 7 Civilizing Knowledge 8 The Ultimate Context