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 …

Martin Smith explores a question central to philosophy--namely, what does it take for a belief
to be justified or rational? According to a widespread view, whether one has justification for …

According to the fitting-attitudes account of value, for X to be good is for it to be fitting to value
X. But what is it for an attitude to be fitting? A popular recent view is that it is for there to be …

Asserting is the act of claiming that something is the case—for instance, that oranges are
citruses, or that there is a traffic congestion on Brooklyn Bridge (at some time). We make …

This book is about knowledge and its value. At its heart is a straightforward idea: we can
answer many interesting and difficult questions in epistemology by reflecting on the role of …

" Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential
functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each …

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 …

There is something puzzling about statistical evidence. One place this manifests is in the
law, where courts are reluctant to base affirmative verdicts on evidence that is purely …

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 …

Subject‐sensitive invariantism posits surprising connections between a person's knowledge
and features of her environment that are not paradigmatically epistemic features. But which …