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The author reflects on pyrrhonian skepticism and links it to human beings. The author quotes Scottish philosopher David Hume and his book "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" where Hume talks about implementing pyrrhosim with epistemology. The author also mentions about epoche, ataraxia and isosthenia, all of which are part of ancient philosophy.

This paper takes up the critique of armchair philosophy drawn by some experimental philosophers from survey results. It also takes up a more recent development with increased methodological sophistication. The argument based on disagreement among respondents suggests a much more serious problem for armchair philosophy and puts in question the standing of our would-be discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information regarding the importance of competence in epistemology. It mentions that competences which were classified into three different levels such as inner competence, constitutional competence, and complete competence were describe as the tendency of an agent to make a good performance. It relates four cases for the exercise of competence wherein they lack the required situation to have complete competence while retaining their inner competence.

Susana Nuccetelli discusses critically my account of Moore's Proof of the External World. Noah Lemos takes up my views on skepticism and my distinction between animal knowledge and reflective knowledge. Otávio Bueno focuses on my treatment of dream skepticism. In this article I offer replies to my three critics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An exposition and discussion of Chisholm's “epistemic principles.” These are compared with relevant views of Wilfrid Sellars and Richard Foley. A further comparison, with the approach favored by Descartes, is argued to throw light on the status of such principles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How might one explain the reliability of one's a priori beliefs? What if anything is implied about the ontology of a certain realm of knowledge by the possibility of explaining one's reliability about that realm? Very little, or so it is argued here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Analyzes the epistemological significance of contextualism. Use of contextualism in response to skepticism; Elements of contextualism; Nature, conditions and extent of human knowledge; Plausibility of the main thesis of epistemic contextualism.

Replies to comments on an article on contextualism. Importance of a Cartesian tracking condition to knowledge; Intuition behind the requirement of sensitivity; Conservational constraints governing epistemic discourse.

In this article the author discusses modal and other a priori epistemology and comments on how to differentiate between possible and impossible. He states that conceivability leads to the belief of possibility and can comprise of objectivity, aspectuality and determinacy. He mentions that reflective knowledge can be acquired by knowing the sources of belief and believing in its reliability. Also modal justification can be verified by having prepositional contents which are determinable.

Demonstrates how replacing sensitivity with safety makes it possible to defend plain Moorean common sense against the spurious advantages over it claimed by skeptical, tracking, relevant-alternative, and contextualist accounts. Modal conception of sensitivity shared by various forms of externalism; Arguments for sensitivity-based opposition to plain Moorean common sense.

Focuses on the philosophy of existential relativity. Composition of artifacts and natural objects; Elimination theory; Disagreement between users of rival conceptual schemes.