Crucial to Sosa’s account of epistemic value an axiology of performances, a category he argues includes beliefs. One of the theoretical virtues of his account is its generality. The account applies to performances in general, so that claims about epistemic value fall out as consequences, given the premise that beliefs are performances. Despite its attractiveness, I argue that Sosa’s account is problematic.  Powerful Kantian intuitions undermine his axiology, as well as any axiology on which the success of an attempt improves the value or quality of the attempt. I examine how we should think about epistemic value if we adhere to these Kantian intuitions.