After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

This paper develops an argument against causal decision theory. I formulate a principle of
preference, which I call the Guaranteed Principle. I argue that the preferences of rational …

According to evidentialist views, credence in a proposition p should be proportional to the
degree of evidential support that one has in favor of p. However, empirical evidence …

Although contemporary analytic epistemology continues to be dominated by externalist
accounts, an alternative internalist approach has recently emerged that emphasizes the …

Until recently, many philosophers (and non-philosophers) took Causal Decision Theory
(CDT) to be more successful than its rival, Evidential Decision Theory (EDT). Things have …

The main question of this paper is: how do we manage to know what our own degrees of
belief are? Section 1 briefly reviews and criticizes the traditional functionalist view, a view …

According to the preference-centric approach to understanding partial belief, the connection
between partial beliefs and preferences is key to understanding what partial beliefs are and …

Skeptical invariantism isn'ta popular view about the semantics of knowledge attributions. But
what, exactly, is wrong with it? The basic problem is that it seems to run afoul of the fact that …

The papers focuses on pragmatic arguments for various rationality constraints on a decision
maker's state of mind: on her beliefs or preferences. An argument of this kind typically targets …

It is often thought that bets on the truth of known propositions become irrational if the losing
costs are high enough. This is typically taken to count against the view that knowledge …