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….

In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on suc….

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

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

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….

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

A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots "crazy" is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery stan….

Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to suc….

You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sortin….

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

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..

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

There isn't a formal definition of success..

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….

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….

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