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222Responsibilism out of characterIn Mark Alfano & Abrol Fairweather (eds.), Epistemic Situationism, Oxford University Press. 2017.Recent writers claim that responsibilist virtue epistemology courts skepticism, owing to the fact that most of us lack the virtues it deems necessary for justified belief and knowledge. A powerful version of this objection is the challenge from situationist social psychology pressed by Alfano (2012, 2013) and Olin and Doris (2014). This paper develops a new version of responsibilism that is immune from this objection, and shows that this view has many advantages over other forms of virtue episte…Read more
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204The illusion of discretionSynthese 193 (6): 1635-1665. 2016.Having direct doxastic control would not be particularly desirable if exercising it required a failure of epistemic rationality. With that thought in mind, recent writers have invoked the view that epistemic rationality gives us options to defend the possibility of a significant form of direct doxastic control. Specifically, they suggest that when the evidence for p is sufficient but not conclusive, it would be epistemically rational either to believe p or to be agnostic on p, and they argue tha…Read more
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102On Suspending ProperlyIn Paul Silva & Luis R. G. Oliveira (eds.), Propositional and Doxastic Justification: New Essays on their Nature and Significance, Routledge. 2022.We argue for a novel view of suspending judgment properly--i.e., suspending judgment in an ex post justified way. In so doing we argue for a Kantian virtue-theoretic view of epistemic normativity and against teleological virtue-theoretic accounts.
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84Beginning in Wonder: Suspensive Attitudes and Epistemic DilemmasIn Nick Hughes (ed.), Epistemic Dilemmas, Oxford University Press. 2021.We argue that we can avoid epistemic dilemmas by properly understanding the nature and epistemology of the suspension of judgment, with a particular focus on conflicts between higher-order evidence and first-order evidence.
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76Epistemic Consequentialism and its AftermathAnalysis 79 (4): 773-783. 2019.Epistemic Consequentialism represents a shooting-star movement nearing its zenith but already passing its peak of apparent solidarity, with clear fault-lines no.
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65Can performance epistemology explain higher epistemic value?Synthese 197 (12): 5335-5356. 2017.Judgment and Agency contains Sosa’s latest effort to explain how higher epistemic value of the sort missing from an unwitting clairvoyant’s beliefs might be a special case of performance normativity, with its superior value following from truisms about performance value. This paper argues that the new effort rests on mistaken assumptions about performance normativity. Once these mistaken assumptions are exposed, it becomes clear that higher epistemic value cannot be a mere special case of perfor…Read more
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55The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason (edited book)Routledge. 2020.The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reasonis an outstanding reference source to this exciting and distinctive subject area. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field covering questions such as: What is the nature of the reasons for which we act and what is the nature of the faculty of practical reason? What are normative reasons for action? What is practical irrationality and what are the requirements, perm…Read more
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26Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue Edited By Abrol Fairweather and Owen Flanagan (review)Analysis 77 (3): 663-667. 2017._Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue_Edited By FairweatherAbrol and FlanaganOwenCambridge University Press, 2014. vi + 272 pp. £64.99.
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23Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects, and Other Subjects, by Arindam ChakrabartiMind 132 (525): 278-287. 2023.Realisms Interlinked is a sublime work. It reanimates theoretical philosophy with a distinctive synthesis of ideas and methods drawn from the common-sense metap.
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23Knowing Better: Virtue, Deliberation, and Normative Ethics, written by Daniel StarJournal of Moral Philosophy 16 (1): 97-100. 2019.
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Responsibilism within reasonIn Christoph Kelp & John Greco (eds.), Virtue Theoretic Epistemology: New Methods and Approaches, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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