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5Virtue epistemologyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2017.This entry introduces many of the most important results of the contemporary Virtue epistemology (hereafter 'VE') research program. These include novel attempts to resolve longstanding disputes, solve perennial problems, grapple with novel challenges, and expand epistemology’s horizons. In the process, it reveals the diversity within VE. Beyond sharing the two unifying commitments mentioned above, its practitioners diverge over the nature of intellectual virtues, which questions to ask, and whic…Read more
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4Reliabilist Virtue EpistemologyIn Nancy Snow (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtue, Oxford University Press. pp. 725-746. 2018.According to reliabilist virtue epistemology, or virtue reliabilism, knowledge is true belief that is produced by intellectual excellence (or virtue), where intellectual excellence is understood in terms of reliable, truth-directed cognitive dispositions. This essay explains why virtue reliabilism is a form of epistemological externalism, is a moderately naturalized epistemology, and is distinct from virtue responsibilism. We explain virtue reliabilism’s answers to various forms of skepticism, …Read more
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4Skepticism about the External WorldIn The Oxford handbook of skepticism, Oxford University Press. pp. 108--128. 2008.
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3Intellectual Virtues and Their Place in PhilosophyIn Christoph Jäger & Winfried Löffler (eds.), Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement. Papers of the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2011, The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. pp. 117-130. 2007.
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3Evidentialism: Essays in Epistemology (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (4): 556-558. 2005.
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1Introduction to Virtue EpistemologyIn John Greco & John Turri (eds.), Virtue Epistemology: Contemporary Readings, Mit Press. 2012.Virtue epistemology is by now a broad and varied field. Also by now, there are various helpful overviews of the field available, some of which are included in this volume (see especially Battaly 2008 and Baehr 2008).1 This introduction will not provide another. Rather, we will begin with a brief characterization of what virtue epistemology is (Section 1), and then briefly describe some of the topics that are treated in this volume (Section 2). Some of these are topics that have occupied ep…Read more
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Introduction: What is Epistemology?In John Greco & Ernest Sosa (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, Blackwell. 2017.The purpose of this volume is to provide a relatively complete guide to the current state of epistemology. To this end, each essay addresses some important issue in the theory of knowledge. Each provides some historical background or other contextual information so as to orient the reader to the problem at hand and to its current state of development. After this, each author provides an extended defense of his or her own position on the relevant topic. In this way the essays go well beyond simpl…Read more
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Knowledge-producing abilitiesIn Christoph Kelp & John Greco (eds.), Virtue Theoretic Epistemology: New Methods and Approaches, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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Luck and skepticismIn Ian M. Church & Robert J. Hartman (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, Routledge. 2019.
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Virtues in EpistemologyIn Paul K. Moser (ed.), The Oxford handbook of epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2002.This article reviews some recent history of epistemology, focusing on ways in which the intellectual virtues have been invoked to solve specific epistemological problems. It gives a sense of the contemporary landscape that has emerged, and clarifies some of the disagreements among those who invoke the virtues in epistemology. Furthermore, it explores some epistemological problems in greater detail. It also defends a particular approach in virtue epistemology by displaying its power in addressing…Read more
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Skepticism and the Modern OntologyProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 73 217-228. 1999.
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``Agent Reliabilism"In James Tomberlin (ed.), Philosophical Perspecives, Atascadero, Calif.: Ridgeview Publishing Co.. 1999.
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A (different) virtue epistemologyIn Jeremy Fantl, Matthew McGrath & Ernest Sosa (eds.), Contemporary epistemology: an anthology, Wiley. 2019.
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The Foundationalism-Coherentism Debate in EpistemologyDissertation, Brown University. 1989.The central concern of the dissertation is the debate in epistemology between foundationalism and coherentism. However, my working assumption is that progress in this debate can be made only after an extended investigation into epistemic justification and its relation to knowledge. ;My strategy is to defend a picture of knowledge in which two kinds of virtue are required. First, in order for p to be knowledge for S, S must be justified in believing p in the sense that S's believing p is epistemi…Read more
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Foundationalism and Philosophy of ReligionIn Brian Davies (ed.), Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject, Georgetown University Press. pp. 35. 1998.
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The Social Value of ReflectionIn Waldomiro J. Silva-Filho & Luca Tateo (eds.), Thinking About Oneself: The Place and Value of Reflection in Philosophy and Psychology, Springer Verlag. 2019.
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