Stephen Hetherington

Biography

Education: BA – Hons 1 (Sydney, 1981); BPhil (Oxford, 1983); MA, PhD (Pittsburgh, 1986, 1987). All of these are in philosophy.
Employment: West Virginia University (1987 – 1990); UNSW, Sydney (1990 – 2020)
Presidency: Australasian Association of Philosophy (2024 – 25)
Editorships (as Editor-in-Chief): (1) Journal: Australasian Journal of Philosophy (December 2013 – March 2022). (2) Book series: Philosophical Studies Series (Springer, 2006 – 13); Critical Introductions to Contemporary Epistemology (Bloomsbury, 2012 – ); Epistemology Elements (Cambridge UP, 2020 – ).
Books: (1) Monographs. Epistemology’s Paradox (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992); Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (Clarendon Press, 2001); How to Know (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011); Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (Cambridge UP, 2016); Defining Knowledge (Cambridge UP, 2022); Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology (Bloomsbury 2024).
(2) Introductory. Knowledge Puzzles (Westview, 1996); Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy! (Edinburgh UP, 2003); Self-Knowledge (Broadview, 2007); Yes, But How Do You Know? (Broadview, 2009); What Is Epistemology? (Polity, 2019); Being Philosophical (Polity, 2024).
(3) Edited. Epistemology futures (Clarendon Press, 2006); Aspects of Knowing (Elsevier, 2006); Epistemology: The Key Thinkers (Continuum, 2012; 2nd edn, Bloomsbury, 2019); Metaphysics and Epistemology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014); What Makes a Philosophy Great? (Routledge, 2017); The Gettier Problem (Cambridge UP, 2019); (general editor) The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History (Bloomsbury, 2019); (with M Valaris) Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy (vol. IV of The Philosophy of Knowledge’s four volumes); (with ND Smith) What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology (Routledge, 2020); (with D Macarthur) Living Skepticism (Brill, 2022); Extreme Philosophy (Routledge, 2024).