What is the role of consciousness in our mental lives? Declan Smithies argues here that
consciousness is essential to explaining how we can acquire knowledge and justified belief …

Extended Rationality provides a novel account of the structure of epistemic justification. Its
central claim builds upon Wittgenstein's idea that epistemic justifications hinge on some …

Pure coherentists claim that a belief can only be justified by its relations to other beliefs.
Impure coherentists are willing to give some non‐beliefs, such as perceptual experiences, a …

Phenomenal conservatism is the view according to which, roughly, the way things seem or
appear to be is a source of epistemic justification. According to phenomenal conservatism …

I've defended views about the epistemology of perception that I call “dogmatist.” They are
close to views defended by Michael Huemer and John Pollock, and somewhat more broadly …

Phenomenal Conservatism (the view that an appearance that things are a particular way
gives one prima facie justification for believing that they are that way) is a promising, and …

In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster of theses related to
the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational …

Here we challenge the orthodoxy according to which abduction is an a posteriori mode of
inference. We start by providing a case study illustrating how abduction can justify a …

Skepticism is one of the perennial problems of philosophy: from antiquity, to the early
modern period of Descartes and Hume, and right through to the present day. It remains a …

Philosophical skepticism is interesting because there are intriguing arguments for it despite
its initial implausibility. Many contemporary epistemological positions can be fruitfully …