Presents and defends a bold new approach to the ethics of belief and to resolving the internalism-externalism debate in epistemology.

1. Introduction; 2. Epistemic value; 3. Reasons for belief (I); 4. Reasons for belief (II); 5. Assertion; 6. Action; 7. Justification.

Clayton Littlejohn is a Lecturer in Philosophy at King's College London. He has published a number of articles on epistemology and ethical theory in journals including the Journal of Philosophy and American Philosophical Quarterly.