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51Can we agree to disagree?Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 39 (2): 282-285. 2008.
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51Communicating your point of viewEuropean Journal of Philosophy 30 (2): 661-675. 2021.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 661-675, June 2022.
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41Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative PowerGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40 (1): 147-179. 2019.
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41The nature and rationality of conversionEuropean Journal of Philosophy 27 (4): 821-836. 2019.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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36Conspiracies And Lyes: Scepticism And The Epistemology of TestimonyDissertation, University College London. 1998.In Conspiracies and Lyes I aim to provide an epistemological account of testimony as one of our faculties of knowledge. I compare testimony to perception and memory. Its similarity to both these faculties is recognised. A fundamental difference is stressed: it can be rational to not accept testimony even if testimony is fulfilling its proper epistemic function because it can be rational for a speaker to not express a belief; or, as I say, it can be rational for a speaker to lye. This difference …Read more
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31Losing the rose tinted glasses: neural substrates of unbiased belief updating in depressionFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 8. 2014.
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29Collective and extended knowledgePhilosophical Issues 32 (1): 200-213. 2022.Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.
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29The presumption of assuranceSynthese 199 (3-4): 6391-6406. 2021.According to the Assurance Theory of testimony, in telling an audience something, a speaker offers their assurance that what is told is true, which is something like their guarantee, or promise, of truth. However, speakers also tell lies and say things they do not have the authority to back up. So why does understanding tellings to be a form of assurance explain how tellings can provide a reason for belief? This paper argues that reasons come once it is recognised that tellings are trusted. And …Read more
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29Lying and DeceitIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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26What Are We Doing When We Are Training?Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 13 (3-4): 348-362. 2019.ABSTRACTAmateur and professional sportspersons, Bernard Suits proposed, are differentiated by their attitude towards their sport. For the amateur, competition is a game done for its own sake, while...
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18The Philosophy of Trust (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Trust is central to our social lives. We know by trusting what others tell us. We act on that basis, and on the basis of trust in their promises and implicit commitments. So trust underpins both epistemic and practical cooperation and is key to philosophical debates on the conditions of its possibility. It is difficult to overstate the significance of these issues. On the practical side, discussions of cooperation address what makes society possible—of how it is that life is not a Hobbesian war …Read more
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14On the Nature of Faith and Its Relation to Trust and BeliefThe Monist 106 (1): 61-71. 2023.One can have faith in someone, believe in someone and trust someone, and these notions seem closely related. Any account of faith should then address its relation to trust and belief. Like trust, faith can similarly have propositional and relational forms. One can have faith that God is good and faith in God; one can trust that another will do something and trust them to do it. Starting from a comparison between these forms of faith and trust, this paper proposes a philosophical analysis of fait…Read more
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