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44Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our BelievingPrinceton University Press. 2015.Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism—the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us. Duncan Pritchard argues that the key to resolving this puzzle is to realize that it is composed of two logically distinct problems, each requiring its own solution. He then puts forward solutions to both problems. To that end, he offers a new reading of Wittgenstein's account of the structure of rat…Read more
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43Aesthetic riskThink 17 (48): 11-24. 2018.Artists often emphasize the importance of risk to their work. But this raises a puzzle, as on a standard probabilistic account of risk we are obliged to treat some of these cases as not involving genuine risk at all. It is argued that the way to resolve this puzzle is to recognize a crucial shortcoming in the probabilistic account of risk. With this shortcoming rectified, and hence with a revised modal account of risk in place, we are able to treat the relevant cases of putative aesthetic risk a…Read more
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41IntroductionSynthese 158 (3): 273-275. 2007.I introduce the topic of this special issue of Synthese, and give an overview of the articles collected here.
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41Knowledge and virtue: Response to kelpInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 17 (4). 2009.This Article does not have an abstract
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41I—Duncan Pritchard: Radical Scepticism, Epistemic Luck, and Epistemic ValueAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 82 (1): 19-41. 2008.
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39New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure (edited book)Routledge. 2022.This volume features new perspectives on the topic of epistemic closure. It connects epistemic closure principles to related themes in epistemology such as scepticism, dogmatism, evidentialism, epistemic logic, and modal epistemology.
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39We investigate the explanatory role of epistemic virtue in accounting for the success of science as a social institution that is characterized by predominantly epistemic ends. Several structural explanations of the epistemic success of science that commonly rule out virtue attributions to scientists are explored in reference to a case of collective epistemic vice; namely, the credibility crisis in the social and behavioral sciences. These accounts underline the social structure of science as the…Read more
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38Review of Jason Stanley, Knowledge and Practical Interests (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (6). 2006.
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38Chapter 4. Hinge CommitmentsIn Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing, Princeton University Press. pp. 89-120. 2016.
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37Review of Christian Beyer, and Alex Burri (eds.), Philosophical Knowledge: Its Possibility and Scope (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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37Epistemic Value (edited book)Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009.Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in issues about the value of knowledge and the values informing epistemic appraisal. Is knowledge more valuable that merely true belief or even justified true belief? Is truth the central value informing epistemic appraisal or do other values enter the picture? Epistemic Value is a collection of previously unpublished articles on such issues by leading philosophers in the field. It will stimulate discussion of the nature of knowledge and of di…Read more
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37Introduction to special issue: knowledge, virtue and action—eastern and western perspectivesSynthese 197 (6): 2291-2294. 2020.No abstract available.
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35Anti-Skepticism and the Value of KnowledgeIris. European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 1 (2): 419-428. 2009.It is argued that the debate regarding radical scepticism needs to be conducted in the light of a value-theoretic methodological constraint. It is further shown that such a methodological constraint raises some uncomfortable problems for the main anti-sceptical proposals in the literature
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33Educating for Intellectual Humility and ConvictionJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (2): 398-409. 2020.It is argued that two plausible goals of the educational enterprise are (i) to develop the intellectual character, and thus the intellectual virtues, of the student, and (ii) to develop the student's intellectual self-confidence, such that they are able to have conviction in what they believe. On the face of it, however, these two educational goals seem to be in tension with one another, at least insofar as intellectual humility is a genuine intellectual virtue. This is because intellectual humi…Read more
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32Perhaps the most dominant anti-sceptical proposal in the recent literatureadvanced by such figures as Stewart Cohen, Keith DeRose and David Lewisis the contextualist response to radical scepticism. Central to the contextualist thesis is the claim that, unlike other non-contextualist anti-sceptical theories, contextualism offers a dissolution of the sceptical paradox that respects our common sense epistemological intuitions. Taking DeRose’s view as representative of the contextualist position, …Read more
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31McDowell on Reasons, Externalism and ScepticismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 11 (3): 273-294. 2003.
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 2000
Irvine, California, United States of America
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