- Lived:
- Born 1955, Uppsala, Sweden · Career in Dublin, Oxford, Edinburgh, Oxford again — and, these days, regularly New Haven and Lugano
- Tradition:
- Contemporary analytic philosophy — epistemology, logic, metaphysics, and the question of how philosophy itself should be done
- The Big Idea:
- Knowledge is not built out of simpler ingredients like belief and evidence — knowledge comes first, and everything else, including evidence, is built out of it.
- If you remember one thing:
- He is the philosopher who bites the bullets everyone else dodges: there really is an exact number of hairs that makes you bald, an exact grain that makes a heap — we just can't ever know which.