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122Can a coherence theory appeal to appearance states?Philosophical Studies 67 (3): 197-217. 1992.Coherence theorists have universally defined justification as a relation only among (the contents of) belief states, in contradistinction to other theories, such as some versions of foundationalism, which define justification as a relation on belief states and appearance states.
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231Reply to SimionLogos and Episteme 8 (1): 113-116. 2017.Mona Simion questions whether there is a distinction between taking back an assertion and taking back only the content of an assertion, as I have claimed. After arguing against the distinction in question, Simion grants that there is a difference between the cases that I use to illustrate the distinction, and thus turns to the task of explaining the difference in a way that keeps it from undermining the knowledge norm. The explanation she offers is in terms of a distinction between doing somethi…Read more
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Five Questions about EpistemologyIn Duncan Pritchard & Vincent Hendricks (eds.), Epistemology: 5 Questions, Automatic Press/vip. 2008.
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41``Nozickian Epistemology and the Question of Closure"Croatian Journal of Philosophy 3 (3): 351-364. 2004.Nozick’s contribution to the epistemology of the last half of the twentieth century includes addressing the question of whether knowledge is closed under known implication. I argue that the question of closure provides a serious obstacle to Nozickian approaches to epistemology
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``Resurrection, Heaven, and Hell"In Charles Taliaferro & Paul Draper (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Routledge. pp. 630-639. 2009.
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85What is wrong with minimal foundationalism?Erkenntnis 21 (2): 175-184. 1984.attacks new defenders of foundationalism. Some simply took on the critics, 2 but others attempted to argue that even if the critics were right, only one form of foundationalism was suspect, not foundationalism itself. For, according to these defenders, foundationalism is not to be identified with the view of Classical Foundationalism (CE) that all of our knowledge rests on incorrigible beliefs. Rather foundationalism is the view that all of our knowledge rests on beliefs that are self-warranting…Read more
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47The Intellectual Virtues and the Life of the Mind (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (4): 973-976. 1994.
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56Is there an 'us' in 'justification'?Synthese 62 (1). 1985.A critical question for epistemologists is whether there are any inter-subjective requirements for having a justified belief C whether there is an >us= in >justification=. One recent epistemologist that has addressed this issue is Keith Lehrer. In Knowledge, Lehrer presents a..
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Plantinga's proper function account of warrantIn J. J. Kvanvig (ed.), Warrant and Contemporary Epistemology, Rowman and Littlefield, Savage, Maryland. 1996.Plantinga thus offers an approach that begins by assessing the faculties or abilities of a cognitive system or agent. Once such an assessment is complete, the epistemologist is in a position to infer the epistemic status of the doxastic products of those faculties or abilities.
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1``Divine Conservation and the Persistence of the World"In Thomas V. Morris (ed.), Divine and human action: essays in the metaphysics of theism, Cornell University Press. pp. 13-49. 1988.
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4Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 5 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2014.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.
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``The Value of Knowledge and Truth"In D. M. Borchert (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference Books. 2006.
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119On Lemke's Defence of a Causal Basing RequirementAnalysis 47 (3). 1987.LEMKE has recently taken issue (see ANALYSIS 46.3, June 1986, pp. 138-44) with my claim that no counterfactual causal account of the basing relation is plausible (see ANALYSIS 45.3, June 1985, pp. 153-8). Intuitively, a counterfactual causal account claims that belief is based on evidence if and only if the evidence either causes the belief or would have caused it had the actual cause been absent. This intuitive formulation accounts only for counterfactual causes of level one: events which would…Read more
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1``Scientific Naturalism and the Value of Knowledge"In Thomas M. Crisp, Matthew Davidson & David Vander Laan (eds.), Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga, Springer. pp. 193-214. 2006.
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Philosophical reflection concerning heaven and hell has focused on the place of such doctrines in the great monotheistic religions emanating from the religion of the ancient people of Israel--Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The philosophical issues that arise concerning these doctrines is not limited to such traditions, however. Consider, for example, the doctrine of hell. Any religion promises certain benefits to its adherents, and these benefits require some contrast that befalls, or might b…Read more
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13Omniscience and Eternity: A Reply to CraigFaith and Philosophy 18 (3): 369-376. 2001.Craig claims that my treatment of temporal indexicals such as ‘now’ is inadequate, and that my theory gives no general account of tense. Craig’s argument misunderstands the theory of indexicals I give, and I show how to extend the theory to give a general account of tense.
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``Restriction Strategies for Knowability: Lessons in False Hope"In Joseph Salerno (ed.), New Essays on Knowability, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 205-222. 2009.
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