title: Epistemology: How Do You Know What You Know?: ThinkAboutIt! Philosophy For Kids
author:  Amy Leask 
description: Amy is living proof that you can do something good with a philosophy degree (she actually has two). A self-proclaimed word nerd and author, she's tickled pink to be able to combine her love of ideas with more than 10 years as an educator and curriculum developer. Amy firmly believes that great philosophers come in all sizes, and is committed to helping people see the power of their own ideas. When she isn't busy writing and philosophizing, she enjoys world travel, extreme baking and pondering the mysteries of the universe with her own little philosopher.
zlib_text:  Epistemic cognition, the philosophical core of metacognition, concerns people’s 
  knowledge about the justification and truth of beliefs. Multiple literatures in psy-
  chology and education address aspects of epistemic cognition. In the absence of a 
  coherent conceptual framework, however, these literatures mostly fail to commu-
  nicate with each other and often connect only loosely to genuine epistemology. 
  This complicates any effort to achieve a systematic theoretical understanding of 
  epistemic cognition and its development. Deanna Kuhn writes in her foreword, 
  “Moshman is not the first to take on this challenge, but he fulfills it elegantly and, 
  I think, the most comprehensively and astutely.” 
   After reviewing the basics of philosophical epistemology and cognitive psychol-
  ogy,  Epistemic Cognition and Development  provides a compelling account of devel-
  opmental change across childhood and beyond in knowledge about knowledge, 
  especially with regard to fundamental conceptions of 