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788Believing on AuthorityEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (4): 133-144. 2014.Linda Zagzebski's "Epistemic Authority" (Oxford University Press, 2012) brings together issues in social epistemology with topics in moral and political philosophy as well as philosophy of religion. In this paper I criticize her discussion of self-trust and rationality, which sets up the main argument of the book; I consider how her view of authority relates to some issues of epistemic authority in testimony; and I raise some concerns about her treatment of religious epistemology and religious a…Read more
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1449Two more for the knowledge account of assertionAnalysis 71 (4): 684-687. 2011.The Knowledge Norm or Knowledge Account of Assertion (KAA) has received added support recently from data on prompting assertion (Turri 2010) and from a refinement suggesting that assertions ought to express knowledge (Turri 2011). This paper adds another argument from parenthetical positioning, and then argues that KAA’s unified explanation of some of the earliest data (from Moorean conjunctions) adduced in its favor recommends KAA over its rivals.
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211Iffy predictions and proper expectationsSynthese 191 (8): 1857-1866. 2014.What individuates the speech act of prediction? The standard view is that prediction is individuated by the fact that it is the unique speech act that requires future-directed content. We argue against this view and two successor views. We then lay out several other potential strategies for individuating prediction, including the sort of view we favor. We suggest that prediction is individuated normatively and has a special connection to the epistemic standards of expectation. In the process, we…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Religion |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Probability |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
PhilPapers Editorships
Defeat |
Primitivism about Knowledge |
Norms of Assertion |
Epistemology of Religion |