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 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 …

According to a captivating picture, epistemic justification is essentially a matter of epistemic
or evidential likelihood. While certain problems for this view are well known, it is motivated …

The Neo-Moorean Deduction (I have a hand, so I am not a brain-in-a-vat) and the Zebra
Deduction (the creature is a zebra, so it isn't a cleverly disguised mule) are notorious …

Ted is on his way to the Philosophy Department, early in the freezing morning. Although he
doesn't know how cold it is, Ted conjectures that the temperature must be below 0 C. Out of …

In this paper I add credence to Linda Zagzebski's (1994) diagnosis of Gettier problems (and
the current trend to abandon the standard analysis) by analyzing the nature of luck. It is …

Knowledge closure is the claim that, if an agent S knows P, recognizes that P implies Q, and
believes Q because it is implied by P, then S knows Q. Closure is a pivotal epistemological …

In considering what we ought to say, we can evaluate a proposition both for whether it is
assertable and for how assertable it is. The latter notion, that of comparative assertability …

In this paper we focus on transmission and failure of transmission of warrant. We identify
three individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for transmission of warrant, and …

It is well known that the probabilistic relation of confirmation is not transitive in that even if E
confirms H1 and H1 confirms H2, E may not confirm H2. In this paper we distinguish four …