What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that
consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief …

Perception is our key to the world. It plays at least three different roles in our lives. It justifies
beliefs and provides us with knowledge of our environment. It brings about conscious mental …

We know about our immediate environment—about the people, animals, and things around
us—by having sensory perceptions. According to a tradition that traces back to Plato, we …

Duncan Pritchard offers an original defence of epistemological disjunctivism. This is an
account of perceptual knowledge which contends that such knowledge is paradigmatically …

Evidentialism is a popular theory of epistemic justification, yet, as early proponents of the
theory Earl Conee and Richard Feldman admit, there are many elements that must be …

If our experiences are cognitively penetrable, they can be influenced by our antecedent
expectations, beliefs, or other cognitive states. Theorists such as Churchland, Fodor …

One dimension of the debate between internalism and externalism in epistemology
concerns the nature and extent of one's epistemic access to facts about justification. For …

According to a long tradition, questions about the nature of knowledge are to be answered
by analyzing it as a species of true belief. In light of the apparent failure of this approach …

Does rationality require logical omniscience? Our best formal theories of rationality imply
that it does, but our ordinary evaluations of rationality seem to suggest otherwise. This paper …

Sometimes, there are reasons for which we believe, intend, resent, decide, and so on: these
reasons are the “bases” of the latter, and the explanatory relation between these bases and …