Volume XVII, Issue 1, 2026

Youssef AGUISOUL ABSTRACT: In hinge epistemology, our belief system has two levels: a non-fundamental level of ordinary beliefs and a fundamental level of hinges. This creates a problem concerning hinges. If beliefs require justification, then hinges, as the ground of the system, are unjustified and fail to qualify as genuine beliefs. If hinges are justified, they become ordinary beliefs rather …

Adam BRAUS ABSTRACT: Dialetheists claim that some statements are dialetheia or true contradictions and are both true and false. This challenges the classical understanding of the law of non-contradiction (LNC). Dialetheists claim there are at least three types of dialetheia: contradictory concepts, sorites paradoxes, and self-referential paradoxes. Attempts to argue that these contradictions are merely semantic have not succeeded entirely, …

Nicola D’ALFONSO ABSTRACT: This paper argues that each of the three core steps in Goodman’s formulation of the ‘new riddle of induction’ is fallacious. First, it challenges the parallel between the justification of deduction and that of induction, highlighting how the latter’s ampliative nature renders Goodman’s purported dissolution of Hume’s problem untenable. Second, it rejects the a priori distinction between …

Colin RULOFF ABSTRACT: In a widely cited paper, Thomas Mulligan argues that conciliationism generates three paradoxes or puzzles when this theory is applied to a class of propositions related to epistemic peerhood. Mulligan claims that these three paradoxes not only pose a significant theoretical challenge to conciliationism, but that they are potentially fatal to the theory. In what follows, I …

Izak TAIT ABSTRACT: This paper introduces ALEPH (Artificial Living Entity with PersonHood), a speculative model of a conscious, self-aware, and agentic artificial intelligence. Using formal logic, this study develops a formalised psychological profile of ALEPH, detailing its cognitive structure, goal formation, and interaction dynamics. Built upon functionalist theories of consciousness and selfhood, ALEPH is analysed through its Zeroth Goal (self-preservation) …

Jack WARMAN ABSTRACT: Impartiality is often cited as a virtue of inquiry, but it is not clear what it means for an inquiry to be impartial. In this paper, I draw on ground-breaking work on the epistemology of inquiry and epistemic rationality to introduce and argue in favour of a novel account of epistemic impartiality. In my view, epistemic impartiality …