McKenna on Non-Ideal Epistemology

This paper argues for a picture on which we should engage in ideal epistemology and leave non-ideal epistemology to sociologists and psychologists – to people interested in how we actually form beliefs, rather than how we ought to. Compatibly, we should keep an eye on results in these fields in order to understand the ‘cans’ to our ‘oughts’, and thereby what our epistemic ideals should look like.