ABSTRACT
One of the questions that is very rarely asked in epistemology concerns what is perhaps the most central issue for this area of philosophy. It is this: why should we care about whether or not we have knowledge? Put another way: is knowledge valuable and, if so, why? The importance of this question resides in the fact that it is only if the primary focus of epistemological theorising – i.e., knowledge – is valuable that the epistemological enterprise is itself a worthwhile undertaking.
