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4Excerpt from “The Book of Life: A Thought Experiment”In Susan Schneider (ed.), Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, Wiley. 2016.This chapter recounts an imaginary situation which the author confronts with while reading The Book of Life. Realizing that the book purports to be a book on his life, he decides to test it and defeat it by looking at a future entry, and turns to an entry 18 minutes hence. He closes the book, and opens it again after a few moments, and starts reading an earlier part of the book. After a period of 18 minutes, the author finds that he is actually reading the particular entry itself which he wanted…Read more
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2Naturalizing metaphysics with the help of cognitive scienceIn Karen Bennett & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. 2015.This chapter argues that empirical findings in cognitive science can play a significant evidential role in an optimal methodology for metaphysics. It does not propose any radical metaphysical methodology or any wholesale replacement of traditional methods. Rather, it offers a supplement to traditional methods. The chapter proposes a general template (or two) for metaphysical methodology under which cognitive scientific considerations might become routine or commonplace factors in realist metaphy…Read more
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2Education and social epistemologyIn Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (ed.), Philosophers on education: New historical perspectives, Routledge. pp. 437-448. 1998.
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2Discrimination and Perceptual KnowledgeIn Sven Bernecker & Fred I. Dretske (eds.), Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 86-102. 2000.
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1A causal theory of knowingIn Steven Luper (ed.), Essential Knowledge: Readings in Epistemology, Longman. pp. 115. 2003.
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1Experts: which ones should you trust?In Alvin I. Goldman & Dennis Whitcomb (eds.), Social Epistemology: Essential Readings, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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1The Need for Social EpistemologyIn Brian Leiter (ed.), The Future for Philosophy, Clarendon Press. pp. 182-207. 2004.
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What is Justified Belief?In George Pappas (ed.), Justification and Knowledge: New Studies in Epistemology, D. Reidel. 1979.
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Values and Morals: Essays in Honor of William Frankena, Charles Stevenson, and Richard Brandt (edited book)Springer. 1978.This Festschrift seeks to honor three highly distinguished scholars in the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan: William K. Frankena, Charles L. Stevenson, and Richard B. Brandt. Each has made significant contributions to the philosophic literature, particularly in the field of ethics. Michigan has been fortunate in having three such original and productive moral philosophers serving on its faculty simultaneously. Yet they stand in a long tradition of excellence, both within the Dep…Read more
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The sciences and epistemologyIn Paul K. Moser (ed.), The Oxford handbook of epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 144--176. 2002.
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Reply to KellyIn Brian P. McLaughlin & Hilary Kornblith (eds.), Goldman and His Critics, Blackwell. pp. 66-68. 2016.
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Goldman's psychologism: Review of Epistemology and Cognition (review)Erkenntnis 34 (1): 117-123. 1986.
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A Causal Theory of KnowingIn Sven Bernecker & Fred I. Dretske (eds.), Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 18-30. 2000.
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Discrimination and perceptual knowledgeIn Jonathan Dancy (ed.), Perceptual Knowledge, Oxford University Press. 1988.
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Philosophical naturalism and intuitional methodologyIn Albert Casullo & Joshua C. Thurow (eds.), The A Priori in Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 11-44. 2013.
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Immediate justification and process reliabilismIn Quentin Smith (ed.), Epistemology: new essays, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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Précis and update of Epistemology and cognitionIn Marjorie Clay & Keith Lehrer (eds.), Knowledge and Skepticism, Westview Press. pp. 69-88. 1989.Epistemics as a whole would have a larger scope, encompassing secondary as well as primary individual epistemology and social epistemology in addition. There are a variety of terms of intellectual evaluation, many of interest to epistemology. The ones most commonly used in the discipline are ‘justified’ and ‘rational.’ Another central term of intellectual appraisal, which oddly has received only scant attention in the field, is ‘intelligent.’ Epistemology should be concerned with this range of i…Read more
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Epistemology |
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |