On a traditional conception of the human mind, reasoning can be rational or irrational, but
perception cannot. Perception is simply a source of new information, and cannot be …

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 …

Epistemology, or “the theory of knowledge,” is concerned with how we know what we know,
what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should …

Abstract Direct Social Perception (DSP) is the idea that we can non-inferentially perceive
others' mental states. In this paper, I argue that the standard way of framing DSP leaves the …

Sanford C. Goldberg presents a novel account of the speech act of assertion. He defends
the view that this type of speech act is answerable to a constitutive norm--the norm of …

Sanford Goldberg investigates the role that others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge
of the world. Two main forms of this reliance are examined: testimony cases, where a subject …

In this concise book, one of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated,
revisionist introduction to the problem of knowledge in Western philosophy. Modern and …

Sanford C. Goldberg argues in this volume that epistemic normativity-the sort of normativity
implicated in assessments of whether a belief amounts to knowledge-is grounded in the …

When your car runs up to factory specifications, it runs properly, the way it should. The
factory specifications set a standard for correct or proper performance. During an inspection …