Kwame Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at New York University and is the author of “The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity.” This piece is adapted from his 2024 acceptance speech for the John W.

Hope, in its propositional construction “I hope that p” is compatible with a stated chance for the speaker that ¬p. On fallibilist construals of knowledge, knowledge is compatible with a chance of ...

This paper defends the epistemological doctrine of fallibilism from recent objections. In "The Myth of Knowledge" Laurence BonJour argues that we should reject fallibilism for two main reasons: first, ...

Paul Ernest contrasts absolutism in mathematics with fallibilism and tries to convince us that the latter is acceptable (THES, September 6). Towards the end he denies any expectation of converting his ...