One way to delineate the concept of epistemically rational belief is to locate it in relation to
other core concepts of epistemology, especially those of knowledge and justified belief …

Theoretical virtues play an important role in the acceptance and belief of theories in science
and philosophy. Philosophers have well-developed views on which virtues ought and ought …

A growing literature in philosophy of science focuses on the role of aesthetics in scientific
practice, with the experiment recently recognized for its aesthetic value. However, the …

This paper offers a normative account of the speech act of explanation with understanding
as its norm. The previous accounts of the speech act of explanation rely on the factive notion …

A growing literature in philosophy of science focuses on the role of surprise in scientific
practice. The aesthetic dimension of science is also gaining momentum in very recent …

The widely accepted view states that an intention to deceive is not necessary for lying.
Proponents of this view, the so-called non-deceptionists, argue that lies are simply insincere …

Beebe and Buckwalter (2010) made the surprising discovery that people are more inclined
to attribute knowledge when norms are violated than when they are conformed to. The …

This chapter develops an inferentialist account of the social epistemological function of the
attributions of understanding, according to which the role of the concept of understanding is …

Speech act theories have primarily aimed to identify the unique characteristics of different
types of speech acts. This has not been an easy endeavour. A simple statement, like saying …

Halpern and Pearl (,) use the framework of structural equation models to define a notion of
explanation that is based on actual causation. But while Halpern and Pearl's definition of …