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111Innocuous InfallibilityPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (2): 406-408. 2002.Alan Sidelle has offered an argument to show that internalism about justification implies us to have a certain sort of infallibility concerning some internal facts. This is true but harmless to internalism.
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106Some Virtues of EvidentialismVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 50 (4): 95-108. 2005.O evidencialismo é, primordialmente, uma tese sobre a justificação epistêmica e, secundariamente, uma tese sobre o conhecimento. Sustenta que a justificação epistêmica é superveniente da evidência. As versões do evidencialismo diferem quanto ao que conta como evidência, quanto ao que seja possuir algo como evidência e quanto ao que um dado corpo de evidência apóia. A tese secundária é a de que o apoio evidencial é necessário ao conhecimento. O evidencialismo ajuda a formular as questões epistemo…Read more
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105Evident, but rationally unacceptableAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 65 (3). 1987.This Article does not have an abstract
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104Evidential support and best explanationsPhilosophical Issues 30 (1): 71-85. 2020.The essay seeks the best combination of internal and external factors in the evidential support that we can have for a proposition. After identifying the combination, the essay criticizes views according to which our evidence supports propositions in virtue of the propositions explaining the evidence to us.
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103The Basic Nature of Epistemic JustificationThe Monist 71 (3): 389-404. 1988.The leading approaches to the nature of epistemic justification are the sides taken in two controversies: coherentism versus foundationalism, and externalism versus internalism. The former dispute has time-tested durability; the latter threatens to become equally persistent. Nevertheless, it will be argued here that these controversies have satisfactory resolutions. It will be argued that each of the four approaches is fundamentally right. Each has a plausible core that combines consistently wit…Read more
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95Against an epistemic dilemmaAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 72 (4). 1994.This Article does not have an abstract
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91The nature and the impossibility of moral perfectionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (4): 815-825. 1994.
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86The moral value in promisesPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 411-422. 2000.Holly Smith poses a challenging moral problem. She offers examples that appear to show that the moral significance of promising can be nefariously exploited. Her leading example is this
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86Seeming evidenceIn Chris Tucker (ed.), Seemings and Justification: New Essays on Dogmatism and Phenomenal Conservatism, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 52. 2013.
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82Hedonistic UtilitarianismPhilosophical Review 110 (3): 428. 1998.This is a wide-ranging defense of a distinctive version of hedonistic act utilitarianism. It is plainly written, forthright, and stimulating. Also, it is replete with disputable assertions and arguments. I shall pursue one issue here, after sketching the project of each substantial chapter.
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74Critical Notices: Epistemology and the psychology of human judgmentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 837-840. 2008.No Abstract
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71Why solve the Gettier problem?In D. F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 55--58. 1988.
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67Supervenience and intentionalityIn Elias E. Savellos & Ümit D. Yalçin (eds.), Supervenience: New Essays, Needham Heights: Cambridge. 1995.
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64Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics (second edition)Oxford University Press. 2014.This is an introduction to metaphysics for students and non-philosophers. (Philosophers: it's supposed to be the kind of book you can give to your friends and family, when they ask what you do for a living.) Contents: personal identity, fatalism, time, God, why not nothing?, free will, constitution, universals, necessity and possibility, what is metaphysics, meta-metaphysics, the metaphysics of ethics.
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5510 Phenomenal KnowledgeIn Yujin Nagasawa, Peter Ludlow & Daniel Stoljar (eds.), There's Something About Mary, Mit Press. pp. 197. 2004.
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51Epistemology and the Psychology of Human JudgmentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (3): 837-840. 2008.
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50Review of Jonathan Sutton, Without Justification (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (12). 2007.
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41Stich and Nisbett on justifying inference rulesPhilosophy of Science 50 (2): 326-331. 1983.Stich and Nisbett offer an analysis of the concept of a justified inference rule, building upon the efforts of Goodman. They fault Goodman's view on the grounds that it is incompatible with some recent psychological research on reasoning. We criticize their proposal by arguing that it is subject to much the same objections as those they raise against other accounts
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41The Analysis of Knowledge in the Second Edition of Theory of KnowledgeCanadian Journal of Philosophy 10 (2). 1980.Roderick Chisholm has offered a new attempt to define knowledge in the second edition of Theory of Knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to present an objection to that definiton.Here is the proposed definition :D6.4 h is known by 5 =df h is accepted by S; h is true; and h is nondefectively evident for 5.To understand D6.4 we need to know what it is for a proposition to be nondefectively evident for a person. That has the following definition:D6.3 h is nondefectively evident for S=df Either h …Read more
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39Factual Evidence without KnowledgePacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (S1): 536-552. 2017.The essay argues that some factual propositions are both clearly true and not known. The essays argues that those propositions are evidence for anyone to whom they are clearly true.
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