In the past two decades, epistemologists have significantly expanded the focus of their field.
To the traditional question that has dominated the debate—under what conditions does …

Epistemologists often work with idealized pictures of what inquirers are like, how they
interact with each other, and the social institutions and environment in which they do the …

This paper offers an analysis of the structure of epistemic vice-charging, the critical practice
of charging other persons with epistemic vice. Several desiderata for a robust vice-charge …

While the main theoretical benefit of patent protection is increased innovation, some assert a
swamped US Patent and Trademark Office has granted an inefficiently large number of …

Group polarization—the tendency of groups to incline toward more extreme positions than
initially held by their individual members—has been rigorously studied by social …

One of the striking trends over the last decade has been the increasing collaboration
between empirical philosophers and psychologists across a wide range of topics …

Intellectual Dependability is the first research monograph devoted to addressing the
question of what it is to be an intellectually dependable person—the sort of person on whom …

For virtue epistemologists, who understand the traits and capacities of epistemic subjects as
central to most epistemic questions, the idea of autonomy plays a significant role. Autonomy …

People with bad beliefs—roughly beliefs that conflict with those of the relevant experts and
are maintained regardless of counter-evidence—are often cast as bad believers. Such …

Epistemic agents interact with evidence in different ways. This can cause trouble for mutual
understanding and for our ability to rationally engage with others. Indeed, it can compromise …