There is a debate on the nature of ignorance in contemporary epistemology. The standard view holds that lack knowledge, while new contends true belief. Rather than taking side this dispute, Pritchard recently offers proposal according to which essentially involves not just absence certain epistemic good, but also an intellectual failing inquiry. We argue Pritchard’s advances discussion by incor...

Embedded epistemic modals are infelicitous under desire predicates when they anchored to the belief state of attitude holder (see, esp., Anand & Hacquard 2013). We present two ways deriving this observation from an inde- pendently motivated property (Heim 1992; von Fintel 1999).

People sometimes choose to remain ignorant, even when information comes at low marginal costs and promises high utility. To investigate whether older adults enlist deliberate ignorance more than younger adults, potentially as an emotion-regulation tool, we presented a representative sample of 1,910 residents Germany with 13 scenarios in which knowledge could result substantial gains or losses. ...