When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear..

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious..

Compare the credit for a football touchdown, which might be shared by the receiver not only with the quarterback, but also with the linesmen who make….

The success of an archery shot may bring food to the hunter's starving family, or may constitute a horrible murder. But these outcomes are irrelevant….

In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By ….

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue..

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics..

If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But the full aptness of such an attempt….

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal kn….

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a p….

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather….

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general..

The data on which philosophical theorizing is based are rather the intuited contents themselves, concerning the various thought experiments. At least….

Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject….

The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end c….

Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in ord….

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically..

Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they ….

There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The data on which scientific t….

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire..

There isn't a formal definition of success..