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65Easy cases and value incommensurabilityRatio 20 (1). 2007.Several critics have denied value incommensurability – or the claim, roughly, that there is no common measure in terms of which values can be weighed – on the basis of what we might call the argument from easy cases. Although the argument from easy cases is quite popular, what is much less often discussed is what exactly the argument entails – in other words, what sort of further commitments the argument generates. Suppose we grant that easy cases point to the existence of a common measure. How …Read more
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62Review of Duncan Pritchard, Alan Millar, Adrian Haddock, The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2). 2011.
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31Does Adversity Make Us Wiser Than Before? Addressing a Foundational Question Through Interdisciplinary EngagementJournal of Value Inquiry 53 (3): 343-348. 2019.
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19Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives From Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (edited book)Oup Usa. 2019.In this volume some of the leading philosophers, psychologists, and theologians in the world shed light on the various ways in which we understand the world, pushing debates on this issue to new levels of sophistication and insight.
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10What It Takes to Live PhilosophicallyIn James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani & Kathleen Wallace (eds.), Philosophy as a way of life: historical, contemporary, and pedagogical perspectives, Wiley. 2020-10-05.This essay presents an account of what it takes to live a philosophical way of life: practitioners must be committed to a worldview, structure their lives around it, and engage in truth‐directed practices. Contra John Cooper, it does not require that one’s life be solely guided by reason. Religious or tradition‐based ways of life count as truth directed as long as their practices are reasons responsive and would be truth directed if the claims made by their way of life are correct. The essay arg…Read more
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IntroductionIn Making Sense of the World: New Essays on the Philosophy of Understanding, Oxford University Press. 2017.
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The Ethics of UnderstandingIn Making Sense of the World: New Essays on the Philosophy of Understanding, Oxford University Press. 2017.
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Knowledge, practical interests, and rising tidesIn David K. Henderson & John Greco (eds.), Epistemic Evaluation: Purposeful Epistemology, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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