This chapter is about different ways of thinking—or cognitive diversity—and the problem of choosing among them. Two claims are defended. The first is that one influential proposal for solving the problem of cognitive diversity—a proposal that invokes the notion of reflective equilibrium, w... see more

In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the prospects of developing a “naturalized epistemology,” though different authors tend to interpret this label in quite different ways. This chapter sketches three projects that might lay claim to the “naturalized epistemolog... see more

This chapter argues for two claims. The first is that a sizeable group of epistemological projects—a group which includes much of what has been done in epistemology in the analytic tradition—would be seriously undermined if one or more of a cluster of empirical hypotheses about epistemic i... see more