The well-respected tradition of research on concepts uses cross-cultural comparisons to
explore which aspects of conceptual behavior are universal versus culturally variable. This …

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 …

In epistemology, fake-barn thought experiments are often taken to be intuitively clear cases
in which a justified true belief does not qualify as knowledge. We report a study designed to …

How do people decide which claims should be considered mere beliefs and which count as
knowledge? Although little is known about how people attribute knowledge to others …

Professional philosophers say it's obvious that a Gettier subject does not know. But
experimental philosophers and psychologists have argued that laypeople and non …

Experimental philosophers have empirically challenged the connection between intuition
and philosophical expertise. This paper reviews these challenges alongside other research …

Epistemology orthodoxy is a purist one in the sense that it separates out the epistemic from
the practical. What counts as evidence is independent of what we care about. Which beliefs …

1. Background/. 1 Epistemological Background Folk stakes sensitivity is a behavioral level
claim, concerning what people are likely to say. It begins from the claim that stakes affect …

Edmund Gettier's 1963 verdict about what knowledge is not has become an item of
philosophical orthodoxy, accepted by philosophers as a genuine epistemological result. It …

Nearly all philosophers agree that only true things can be known. But does this principle
reflect actual patterns of ordinary usage? Several examples in ordinary language seem to …