There are parallel debates in aesthetics and metaethics about the epistemic merits of
deference. 1 Most hold that there is something amiss with purely deferential beliefs. The …

According to a historically popular view, emotions are normative experiences that ground
moral knowledge much as perceptual experiences ground empirical knowledge. Given the …

One solution to the problem of moral knowledge is to claim that we can acquire it a posteriori
through moral experience. But what is a moral experience? When we examine the most …

According to much recent work in metaethics, we have a perceptual access to normative
properties and relations. On a common approach, this access has a presentational …

We seem to be able to acquire evaluative knowledge by mere reflection, or “from the
armchair.” But how? This question is especially pressing for proponents of sentimental …

What is the role of affect in moral epistemology? Sentimentalists assert that moral
knowledge is rooted in knowledge of specific situational moral truths, which affect is a …

Jonna Vance and Preston Werner argue that humans' mechanisms of perceptual attention
tend to be sensitive to morally relevant properties. They dub this tendency “Attentional Moral …

This article provides a new account of how moral beliefs can be epistemically justified. I
argue that we should take seriously the hypothesis that the human mind contains emotion …

How is ethical knowledge possible? One of the most promising answers is the moral sense
view: we can acquire ethical knowledge through emotional experience. But this view faces a …

Love has been the subject of much fascination. It is indeed one of those things which elude
us in many ways. The long-lasting disagreement over love's nature is unsurprising. In light of …