How much should your confidence in your beliefs be shaken when you learn that others–
perhaps 'epistemic peers' who seem as well‐qualified as you are–hold beliefs contrary to …

This chapter addresses three central questions concerning social epistemology: the “what”
question, the “why” question, and the “how” question. The rise of contemporary social …

Rational requirements have a special status in the theory of rationality. This is obvious in
one sense: they supply the content of that theory. But I want to suggest that rational …

Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own
principles. What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct …

Regardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on
an enormous number of topics from politics, religion and morality to sport, culture and art …

Discovering someone disagrees with you is a common occurrence. The question of
epistemic significance of disagreement concerns how discovering that another disagrees …

Responding rationally to the information that others disagree with one's beliefs requires
assessing the epistemic credentials of the opposing beliefs. Conciliatory accounts of …

In the course of conversation, we exert implicit pressures on both ourselves and others.
These forms of conversational pressure are many and far from uniform, so much so that it is …

It is argued that two plausible goals of the educational enterprise are (i) to develop the
intellectual character, and thus the intellectual virtues, of the student, and (ii) to develop the …

What is the source of logical and mathematical truth? This volume revitalizes
conventionalism as an answer to this question. Conventionalism takes logical and …