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The Active Fallibilism of a Situational Skeptic
The Great Instauration, a Baconian project, is a form of active fallibilism about natural knowledge. The practice is borrowed from Plato’s new form...
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Absolutism, Relativism, and Pragmatic Fallibilism: A Reply to Stump
In a recent article in this journal, Stump argues that pragmatism distances itself from absolutism due to its assent to fallibilism while it rejects...
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Fallibilism and the Certainty Norm of Assertion
Among the main reactions to scepticism, fallibilism is certainly the most popular nowadays. However, fallibilism faces a very strong and well-known...
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Fallibilism versus Relativism in the Philosophy of Science
In response to a recent argument by David Bloor, I argue that denying absolutes does not necessarily lead to relativism, that one can be a...
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How to act on what you know
That we may rely on our knowledge seems like a platitude. Yet, the view that knowledge is sufficient for permissible reliance faces a major...
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Knowledge-Action Principles and Threshold-Impurism
Impurism says that practical factors encroach on knowledge. An important version of impurism is called ‘Threshold-Impurism,’ which says that...
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Pragmatism Versus Social Construction: A Reply to Shahryari
In a response to my recent article in this journal, Shahram Shahryari argues that I fail to present a third position between absolutism and...
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How to be an infallibilist
While fallibilism has been the dominant view in epistemology in recent times, the field has witnessed the rise of a new form of infallibilism. In a...
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Controversial views and moral realism
It is argued that the emergence of controversial views in discussions of theoretical medicine and bioethics is best explained by the assumption of...
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The diachronic threshold problem
The paper introduces a new problem for fallibilist and infallibilist epistemologies—the diachronic threshold problem. As the name suggests, this is a...
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Defining the method of reflective equilibrium
The method of reflective equilibrium (MRE) is a method of justification popularized by John Rawls and further developed by Norman Daniels, Michael...
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On Uncertainty
This chapter intends to expose elements of Charles S. Peirce’s epistemological doctrine entitled Fallibilism. The aim is to show how this doctrine...
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Theorizing about evidence
The paper defends the infallibilist account of evidential support in Knowledge and its limits from Jessica Brown’s objections in her book Fallibilism:...
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Rationality and Fallibilism
Dogmatic philosophers see rational thought or action as being that which conforms with the forces or the dictates of Reason. In contrast, I offer a...
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Freedom, Indeterminism, and Fallibilism
This book uses the concepts of freedom, indeterminism, and fallibilism to solve, in a unified way, problems of free will, knowledge, reasoning,...
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Refuting two dilemmas for infallibilism
According to a version of Infallibilism, if one knows that p, then one’s evidence for p entails p. In her Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge (2018,...
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Semiotics and Pragmatism: Theoretical Interfaces
This chapter reflects on the logical interfaces between Charles S. Peirce’s Pragmatism and Semiotics, identifying and bringing together both...
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Pragmatic infallibilism
Infallibilism leads to skepticism, and fallibilism is plagued by the threshold problem. Within this narrative, the pragmatic turn in epistemology has...
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First principles, fallibilism, and economics
In the eyes of its practitioners, economics is both a deductive science and an empirical science. The starting point of its deductions might be...