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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 …

J. Spencer ATKINS ABSTRACT: Many authors have argued that epistemic rationality sometimes comes into conflict with our relationships. Although Sarah Stroud and Simon Keller argue that friendships sometimes require bad epistemic agency, their proposals do not go far enough. I argue here for a more radical claim—romantic love sometimes requires we form beliefs that are false. Lovers stand in a …