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 …

Philosophical orthodoxy has it that intentional action consists in one's intention appropriately
causing a motion of one's body, placing the latter (conceptually and/or metaphysically) prior …

This paper reexamines the case for mentality—the thesis that knowledge is a mental state in
its own right, and not only derivatively, simply by virtue of being composed out of mental …

This chapter begins with some preliminary discussion of the nature of knowledge-first
epistemology. On this basis I argue that reductive knowledge-first epistemologists commit a …

The aim of the present article is to accomplish two things. The first is to show that given some
further plausible assumptions, existing challenges to the indispensability of knowledge in …

This chapter reviews empirical research on the rules governing assertion and retraction, with
a focus on the normative role of truth. It examines whether truth is required for an assertion to …

The orthodox position in epistemology, for both externalists and internalists, is that a subject
in a 'bad case'—a sceptical scenario—is so epistemically badly off that they cannot know …

In this thesis, I explore a number of epistemological issues concerning the relations between
knowledge, belief and practical matters. In particular, I defend a view, which I call credal …

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This book takes purism about knowledge as the default position and defends it from the
challenges of pragmatic encroachment. The book is divided into two parts, a negative and a …