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This chapter gives a psychologically robust account of virtuous and vicious intellectual self-
trust. Tanesini starts by arguing that intellectual self-trust is a set of dispositions to rely on …

Underdetermination arguments support the conclusion that no amount of empirical data can
uniquely determine theory choice. The full content of a theory outreaches those elements of …

abstract Justification for psychiatric paternalism is most easily established where mental
illness renders the person mentally incompetent, depriving him of the capacity for rational …

In this paper, we argue that under certain prevalent interpretations of the nature and aims of
cognitive science, theories of cognition generate a forced choice between a conception of …

THERE are three distinct forms of naturalized epistemology. The first form asserts that the
only legitimate questions about the nature of human knowledge are those we can answer in …

Enactivism, a development in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, has been influential
for several decades now. Different versions of enactivism have emerged since the 1990s …

This paper explores how a certain theory of knowledge—known as anti-luck virtue
epistemology—can account for, and in the process shed light on, the notion of an epistemic …

The ethics of science becomes a significant part of science and technology studies since it
pays attention not exclusively to the moral impact of society on scientists but to that of …

Epistemic agents are ineluctably interdependent. We are nodes in epistemic networks,
supporting and supported by others. Via testimony we convey and glean information. We …