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8550 Years of Gettier: A New Direction in Religious Epistemology?Journal of Analytic Theology 3 147-171. 2015.In this paper, I lend credence to the move toward non-reductive religious epistemology by highlighting the systematic failings of Alvin Plantinga’s seminal, religious epistemology when it comes to surmounting the Gettier Problem. Taking Plantinga’s account as archetypal, I argue that we have systematic reasons to believe that no reductive theory of knowledge can viably surmount the Gettier Problem, that the future of religious epistemology lies in non-reductive models of knowledge.
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395Getting 'Lucky' with GettierEuropean Journal of Philosophy 21 (1): 37-49. 2013.In this paper I add credence to Linda Zagzebski's (1994) diagnosis of Gettier problems (and the current trend to abandon the standard analysis) by analyzing the nature of luck. It is widely accepted that the lesson to be learned from Gettier problems is that knowledge is incompatible with luck or at least a certain species thereof. As such, understanding the nature of luck is central to understanding the Gettier problem. Thanks by and large to Duncan Pritchard's seminal work, Epistemic Luck, a g…Read more
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122Implicit Theories of Intellectual Virtues and Vices: A Focus on Intellectual HumilityJournal of Positive Psychology 5 (10): 389-406. 2014.The study of intellectual humility is still in its early stages and issues of definition and measurement are only now being explored. To inform and guide the process of defining and measuring this important intellectual virtue, we conducted a series of studies into the implicit theory – or ‘folk’ understanding – of an intellectually humble person, a wise person, and an intellectually arrogant person. In Study 1, 350 adults used a free-listing procedure to generate a list of descriptors, one for …Read more
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32Intellectual Humility: An Introduction to the Philosophy and ScienceBloomsbury Academic. 2017.Two intellectual vices seem to always tempt us: arrogance and diffidence. Regarding the former, the world is permeated by dogmatism and table-thumping close-mindedness. From politics, to religion, to simple matters of taste, zealots and ideologues all too often define our disagreements, often making debate and dialogue completely intractable. But to the other extreme, given a world with so much pluralism and heated disagreement, intellectual apathy and a prevailing agnosticism can be simply all …Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Epistemology of Religion |
PhilPapers Editorships
Virtue Epistemology |
The Gettier Problem |
Divine Hiddenness |
Religious Pluralism |