Alexander Pruss's Blog

Epistemic value is the value of true belief and disvalue of false belief. Let p be the proposition that there is such a thing as epistemic...

Consider this modified version of William James’ mountaineer case: The mountaineer’s survival depends on his jumping over a crevasse, and th...

It seems epistemically vicious to induce or maintain a belief for which one has insufficient evidence. But suppose that my evidence support...

The title is provocative, but the thesis is less provocative (and in essence well-known: Hawthorne's work on the deeply contingent a pri...

Consider Williamson-style beliefs that obviously have the property that they have to be correct if they are believed. For instan...

From Uneasy Money  (I am listening to the librivox recording of this while exercising, mowing, etc.): 'I do believe it,' he said...

1. Self-help book idea: A Year Without a Lie . 2. A number of vices in some sense require a willingness to lie. One can't ...