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1157Expert Opinion and Second‐Hand KnowledgePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (2): 492-508. 2016.Expert testimony figures in recent debates over how best to understand the norm of assertion and the domain-specific epistemic expectations placed on testifiers. Cases of experts asserting with only isolated second-hand knowledge (Lackey 2011, 2013) have been used to shed light on whether knowledge is sufficient for epistemically permissible assertion. I argue that relying on such cases of expert testimony introduces several problems concerning how we understand expert knowledge, and the sharing…Read more
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942The modal gap: The objective problem of Lessing's ditch(es) and Kierkegaard's subjective replyReligious Studies 42 (1): 27-44. 2006.This essay expands upon the suggestion that Lessing's infamous ‘ditch’ is actually three ditches: temporal, metaphysical, and existential gaps. It examines the complex problems these ditches raise, and then proposes that Kierkegaard's Fragments and Postscript exhibit a similar triadic organizational structure, which may signal a deliberate attempt to engage and respond to Lessing's three gaps. Viewing the Climacean project in this way offers an enhanced understanding of the intricacies of Lessin…Read more
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1236Knowledge and Evidence You Should Have HadEpisteme 13 (4): 471-479. 2016.Epistemologists focus primarily on cases of knowledge, belief, or credence where the evidence which one possesses, or on which one is relying, plays a fundamental role in the epistemic or normative status of one's doxastic state. Recent work in epistemology goes beyond the evidence one possesses to consider the relevance for such statuses of evidence which one does not possess, particularly when there is a sense in which one should have had some evidence. I focus here on Sanford Goldberg's appro…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 |