Sometimes epistemologists theorize about belief, a tripartite attitude on which one can
believe, withhold belief, or disbelieve a proposition. In other cases, epistemologists theorize …

This essay defends a novel form of virtue epistemology: Modal Virtue Epistemology. It
borrows from traditional virtue epistemology the idea that knowledge is a type of skillful …

Could it be right to convict and punish defendants using only statistical evidence? In this
paper, I argue that it is not and explain why it would be wrong. This is difficult to do because …

Abstract The Lockean Thesis says that you must believe p iff you're sufficiently confident of it.
On some versions, the 'must'asserts a metaphysical connection; on others, it asserts a …

A common conception holds that epistemic justification is a matter of probabilistic likelihood
given the evidence. On this widely held view, a claim is epistemically justified if it meets a …

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 …

We offer a general framework for theorizing about the structure of knowledge and belief in
terms of the comparative normality of situations compatible with one's evidence. The guiding …

Legal standards of proof are often construed as quantifiable likelihoods. Beyond reasonable
doubt, for example, is glossed as 90 to 95% confidence in the guilt of the defendant; …

Abstract Dorr et al.(Philos Stud 170: 277–287, 2014) present a case that poses a challenge
for a number of plausible principles about knowledge and objective chance. Implicit in their …

Epistemic paradoxes are riddles that turn on the concept of knowledge (episteme is Greek
for knowledge). Typically, there are conflicting, well-credentialed answers to these questions …