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Epistemology has traditionally been the study of human knowledge and rational change of human belief. Android epistemology is the exploration of the space of possible machines and their capabilities for knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, desires and for action in accord with their mental states. From the perspective of android epistemology, artificial intelligence and computational cognitive psychology form a unified endeavour: artificial intelligence explores any possible way of engineering machines with intelligent features, while cognitive psychology focuses on reverse engineering the most intelligent systems we know: us. The editors argue that contemporary android epistemology is the fruition of a long tradition in philosophical theories of knowledge and mind. The 16 essays by both computer scientists and philosophers collected in this volume includes substantial contributions to android epistemology, as well as examinations, defenses elaborations and challenges to the very idea.