Talbott's sophisticated theory of rationality is wide-ranging and innovative, and should interest any serious epistemologist.
William J. Talbott is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. He teaches and has published articles in epistemology; moral and political philosophy, including the philosophy of human rights; rational choice theory; and the philosophy of law. He is the author of a book on reliabilist epistemology, The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism and two books in the philosophy of human rights: Which Rights Should Be
Universal? and Human Rights and Human Well-Being (both OUP).