Category: Epistemology

The far more difficult problem is that an inference to the best explanation defeats the sceptic only if we can…

I must admit that I have never seen three people or objects that disconfirm the example regarding tallness, but imagine…

A yet more contemporary response, contextualism, builds upon the previous one by agreeing that we do not know that we…

In the first section we utilised intuitions about when knowledge is had in order to derive an account of its…

Let us review some of the examples that were problematic for the rival accounts of knowledge. When there is misleading…

If justification is irrelevant to knowledge, we may wonder at the epistemologist’s obsession with the notion. There are several explanations.…

Knowledge is the goal of belief. It is what belief aims to be, or, more precisely, what we aim at…

In responding to the charge of circularity, we should note first that the argument defending inference to the best explanation…

In the first section we utilised intuitions about when knowledge is had in order to derive an account of its…

Knowledge is the goal of belief. It is what belief aims to be, or, more precisely, what we aim at…