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23Review of christoper Grau (ed.), Philosophers Explore the Matrix (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (1). 2006.
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20The value of common knowledgeSynthese 200 (1): 1-18. 2022.I articulate the question of the value of common knowledge, or the question of why common knowledge is preferred to mere widespread knowledge. I argue that common knowledge often enjoys instrumental value lacked by widespread knowledge, and present a case that suggests that common knowledge sometimes enjoys non-instrumental value lacked by widespread knowledge. But I articulate some doubts about whether we should draw that conclusion from the case.
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19The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of NihilismOxford University Press USA. 2024.This book is about the idea that goodness is the correctness condition for desire, in the same way that truth is the correctness condition for belief. Allan Hazlett argues that, given this similarity between desire and belief, desires, like beliefs, can both amount to knowledge and be justified or unjustified.
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18Authenticity as transparencyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.What do we ordinarily mean when we describe people as authentic or inauthentic? We describe friends, enemies, acquaintances, and colleagues as authentic and inauthentic, as well as politicians, celebrities, and other public figures. What are we saying about someone, when we say that they are authentic or inauthentic? I argue that authenticity is transparency: that you are authentic to the extent that you are transparent and inauthentic to the extent that you are opaque. I contrast my account wit…Read more
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16Realism and RelativismIn John Turri (ed.), Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, Springer. pp. 33--53. 2013.
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15Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century: Volume 1: The Dawn of AnalysisInternational Philosophical Quarterly 50 (1): 131-136. 2010.
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Part] III. Arguments against and alternatives to. Against repeatable artworksIn Christy Mag Uidhir (ed.), Art & Abstract Objects, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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Review of Brown and Cappelen, Assertion (Oxford University Press) (review)Mind 121 (483): 784-788. 2012.
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The Revival of Virtue EthicsIn Iain Thomson & Kelly Becker (eds.), Cambridge History of Philosophy 1946-2010, Cambridge. pp. 223-236. 2019.In the second half of the twentieth century, an influential strain of ethical thinking conceptualized itself as a revival of an ancient ethical tradition, as against modern moral philosophy, and in particular as a recovery of two central ethical concepts: virtue and eudaimonia. This revival paved the way for virtue ethics to be regarded as one of the “big three” approaches in ethics, alongside deontological and consequentialist approaches. Early developments of virtue ethics were eudaimonist, ha…Read more
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Intellectual trust and the marketplace of ideasIn Alessandra Tanesini & Michael P. Lynch (eds.), Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge. 2020.
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Moorean pragmatics, social comparisons, and common knowledgeIn Peter Graham & Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen (eds.), Epistemic Entitlement, Oxford University Press. 2020.
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