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388Normative Requirements and Contrary-to-Duty ObligationsJournal of Philosophy 112 (11): 600-626. 2015.I argue that normative requirements should be interpreted as the conditional obligations of dyadic deontic logic. Semantically, normative requirements are conditionals understood as restrictors, the prevailing view of conditionals in linguistics. This means that Modus Ponens is invalid, even when the premises are known
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405Easy Knowledge Makes No Difference: Reply to WielenbergLogos and Episteme 6 (2). 2015.We have recently proposed a diagnosis of what goes wrong in cases of ‘easy-knowledge.’ Erik Wielenberg argues that there are cases of easy knowledge thatour proposal cannot handle. In this note we reply to Wielenberg, arguing that our proposal does indeed handle his cases.
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81Conciliation and Peer-Demotion in the Epistemology of DisagreementAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 49 (3): 237-252. 2012.What should your reaction be when you find out that someone that you consider an "epistemic peer" disagrees with you? Two broad approaches to this question have gained support from different philosophers. Precise characterizations of these approaches will be given later, but consider for now the following approximations. First, there is the "conciliatory" approach, according to which the right reaction to a disagreement is to move one's opinion towards that of one's peer, in proportion to the de…Read more
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307Unsafe KnowledgeSynthese 146 (3): 395-404. 2005.Ernest Sosa has argued that if someone knows that p, then his belief that p is “safe”. and Timothy Williamson has agreed. In this paper I argue that safety, as defined by Sosa, is not a necessary condition on knowledge – that we can have unsafe knowledge. I present Sosa’s definition of safety and a counterexample to it as a necessary condition on knowledge. I also argue that Sosa’s most recent refinements to the notion of safety don’t help him to avoid the counterexample. I consider three replie…Read more
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438Evidentialist ReliabilismNoûs 44 (4): 571-600. 2010.I argue for a theory that combines elements of reliabilism and evidentialism.
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1143Williamson on Gettier Cases and Epistemic LogicInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (1): 15-29. 2013.Timothy Williamson has fruitfully exploited formal resources to shed considerable light on the nature of knowledge. In the paper under examination, Williamson turns his attention to Gettier cases, showing how they can be motivated formally. At the same time, he disparages the kind of justification he thinks gives rise to these cases. He favors instead his own notion of justification for which Gettier cases cannot arise. We take issue both with his disparagement of the kind of justification that …Read more
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325Safety and Epistemic Frankfurt CasesIn John Turri (ed.), Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, Springer. pp. 165--178. 2013.
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351On a Puzzle About WithholdingPhilosophical Quarterly 63 (251): 374-376. 2013.I discuss Turri's puzzle about withholding. I argue that attention to the way in which evidence can justify withholding dissolves the puzzle
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387Evidence of evidence is evidenceAnalysis 75 (4): 557-559. 2015.Richard Feldman has proposed and defended different versions of a principle about evidence. In slogan form, the principle holds that ‘evidence of evidence is evidence’. Recently, Branden Fitelson has argued that Feldman’s preferred rendition of the principle falls pray to a counterexample related to the non-transitivity of the evidence-for relation. Feldman replies arguing that Fitelson’s case does not really represent a counterexample to the principle. In this note, we argue that Feldman’s prin…Read more
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33Comments on Carl Ginet’s “Self-Evidence”Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 54 (2): 41-47. 2009.---
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31Review of Stephen Hetherington (ed.), Aspects of Knowing: Epistemological Essays (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (5). 2007.
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27Justified vs. Warranted Perceptual Belief: Resisting DisjunctivismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 71 (2): 367-383. 2007.In this paper I argue that McDowell's brand of disjunctivism about perceptual knowledge is ill‐motivated. First, I present a reconstruction of one main motivation for disjunctivism, in the form of an argument that theories that posit a “highest common factor” between veridical and non‐veridical experiences must be wrong. Then I show that the argument owes its plausibility to a failure to distinguish between justification and warrant (where “warrant” is understood as whatever has to be added to t…Read more
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471Williamson on Gettier Cases in Epistemic Logic and the Knowledge Norm for Rational Belief: A Reply to a Reply to a ReplyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 56 (4): 400-415. 2013.No abstract
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Seguridad y sueños en la epistemología de SosaTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 28 (1). 2009.
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328On Sharon and Spectre’s argument against closurePhilosophical Studies 174 (4): 1039-1046. 2017.
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698Epistemic Pragmatism: An Argument Against ModerationRes Philosophica 90 (2): 237-260. 2013.By “epistemic pragmatism” in general I will understand the claim that whether propositions instantiate certain key epistemic properties (such as being known or being justifiably believed) depends not just on factors traditionally recognized as epistemic, but also on pragmatic factors, such as how costly it would be to the subject if the proposition were false. In what follows I consider two varieties of epistemic pragmatism. According to what I shall call moderate epistemic pragmatism, how much …Read more
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