On Folk Epistemology explores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves and others.
Empirical evidence suggests that we do so early and often in thought as well as in talk …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

Though many philosophers agree that stakes play a role in ordinary knowledge ascriptions,
there is disagreement about what explains this. In this article, we disarm an important …

Approximation involves representing things in ways that might be close to the truth but are
nevertheless false. Given the widespread reliance on approximations in science and …

Experimental philosophers have empirically challenged the connection between intuition
and philosophical expertise. This paper reviews these challenges alongside other research …

Communication is essential to human society, and assertion is central to communication.
This article reviews evidence from life science, cognitive science, and philosophy relevant to …

It is widely accepted in epistemology that knowledge is factive, meaning that only truths can
be known. We argue that this theory creates a skeptical challenge: because many of our …

Nearly all success is due to some mix of ability and luck. But some successes we attribute to
the agent's ability, whereas others we attribute to luck. To better understand the criteria …

I review recent work from armchair and cross-cultural epistemology on whether humans
possess a knowledge concept as part of a universal “folk epistemology.” The work from …

Knowledge sets the standard for appropriate assertion and recent evidence suggests that it
might also set the standard for appropriate belief and decision‐making. Governments spend …