Claims about people's intuitions have long played an important role in philosophical
debates. The new field of experimental philosophy seeks to subject such claims to rigorous …

It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary
speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to …

Moral understanding: for instance, understanding why an action is right or wrong; a person
is good or bad, a character trait is a virtue, and so on. Aesthetic understanding: for instance …

On Folk Epistemology explores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves and others.
Empirical evidence suggests that we do so early and often in thought as well as in talk …

Intuitively, there is a difference between knowledge and mere belief. Contemporary
philosophical work on the nature of this difference has focused on scenarios known as …

Some proponents of “experimental philosophy” criticize philosophers' use of thought
experiments on the basis of evidence that the verdicts vary with truth‐independent factors …

This book is about knowledge and its value. At its heart is a straightforward idea: we can
answer many interesting and difficult questions in epistemology by reflecting on the role of …

Contemporary epistemologists employ various methods in the course of articulating and
defending their theories. A method that has attracted particu-lar scrutiny in recent years …

Epistemic Contextualism (EC) is a recent and hotly debated position. EC is roughly the view
that what is expressed by a knowledge attribution—a claim to the effect that S “knows” that p …

Despite the ubiquity of knowledge attribution in human social cognition, its associated
neural and cognitive mechanisms are poorly documented. A wealth of converging evidence …