Scepticism While Tracking the Truth

Zalabardo finds that the 'reliabilist', truth-tracking theory of knowledge he defends would account for our knowing a great many things about the world but would leave us with no way of knowing whether we have been successful in our epistemic efforts: beliefs about the truth of beliefs we already hold do not track the truth. He accordingly considers understanding the goal of cognition as something other than independent truth. I express some doubts about his reasons for drawing that 'sceptical' conclusion, and suggest that even with independent truth as the goal of cognition we can know we have been successful so far in a great many of our beliefs. That probably requires a richer conception of belief than a purely 'reliabilist', truth-tracking theory of knowledge takes for granted.