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 …

Perception is basic for human knowledge and a major concern of both epistemology and the
philosophy of mind. The scholarship in this area, however, has left two important aspects of …

Moral perceptualism is the theory that perception and perceptual experience is attuned to
moral features in our environment. This idea has received renewed attention in the last 15 …

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 …

According to the guise of the good, a desire for P represents P as good in some
respect.'Perceptualism'further claims that desires involve an awareness of value analogous …

This essay raises a challenge for the perceptual theory of emotion. According to the
perceptual theory, emotions are perceptual states that represent values. But if emotions …

We often claim to know about what is good or bad, right or wrong. But how do we know such
things? Both historically and today, answers to this question have most commonly been …

Abstract The Golden Rule is regularly used in ordinary life, across many different cultures, to
acquire new moral knowledge. At the same time, the Golden Rule is widely ignored both in …

Recently, a number of phenomenological approaches to experiential justification emerged
according to which an experience's justificatory force is grounded in the experience's …