It is frequently claimed that we can learn very little, if anything, about the aesthetic character
of an artwork (or other object of aesthetic appraisal) on the basis of testimony. Such …

YouTube has been implicated in the transformation of users into extremists and conspiracy
theorists. The alleged mechanism for this radicalizing process is YouTube's recommender …

The central question in the debate is whether there are norms of some sort governing our
habits of belief-formation, belief-maintenance, and belief-relinquishment. Is it ever or always …

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Epistemology is the theory of inquiry. This is the central methodological idea I will explore in
this paper. I'd like to add this: I will not provide a direct defence of this idea. Rather, I will take …

This article develops and defends a full account of the nature and normativity of resistance to
evidence, according to which resistance to evidence is an instance of input‐level epistemic …

This paper has two aims. The first is critical: I identify a set of normative desiderata for
accounts of justified belief and I argue that prominent knowledge first views have difficulties …

This book combines virtue reliabilism with knowledge first epistemology to develop novel
accounts of knowledge and justified belief. It is virtue reliabilist in that knowledge and …

Group polarization—the tendency of groups to incline toward more extreme positions than
initially held by their individual members—has been rigorously studied by social …

Full aptness is the most important concept in performance-based virtue epistemology. The
structure of full aptness, in epistemology and elsewhere, is bilevelled. At the first level, we …