In his latest book, Knowledge in a Social World, Alvin Goldman claims to have established that if a reasoner starts with accurate estimates of the reliability of new evidence and conditionalizes on this evidence, then this reasoner is objectively likely to end up closer to the truth. In this...

Roy Sorensen (forthcoming) claims that there are lies that attack knowledge without attacking belief. Using the framework of Bayesianism, I argue that all of Sorensen's examples of knowledge-lies actually achieve the goal of the liar by altering people's beliefs in one way or another. Although...