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1242Knowledge 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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331Pragmatic Encroachment and Theistic KnowledgeIn Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne & Dani Rabinowitz (eds.), Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 267-287. 2018.If knowledge is sensitive to practical stakes, then whether one knows depends in part on the practical costs of being wrong. When considering religious belief, the practical costs of being wrong about theism may differ dramatically between the theist (if there is no God) and the atheist (if there is a God). This paper explores the prospects, on pragmatic encroachment, for knowledge of theism (even if true) and of atheism (even if true), given two types of practical costs: namely, by holding a fa…Read more
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1628Religious Diversity and DisagreementIn M. Fricker, N. J. L. L. Pedersen, D. Henderson & P. J. Graham (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, Routledge. pp. 185-195. 2019.Epistemologists have shown increased interest in the epistemic significance of disagreement, and in particular, in whether there is a rational requirement concerning belief revision in the face of peer disagreement. This article examines some of the general issues discussed by epistemologists, and then considers how they may or may not apply to the case of religious disagreement, both within religious traditions and between religious (and non-religious) views.
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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 |