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1686Patrick Greenough and Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Williamson on Knowledge, Oxford: OUP (2009) (review)Mind 121 (484): 1069-1073. 2012.
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396Boghossian (1996) has put forward an interesting explanation of how we can acquire logical knowledge via implicit definitions that makes use of a special template. Ebert (2005) has argued that the template is unserviceable, as it doesn't transmit warrant. In this paper, we defend the template. We first suggest that Jenkins (2008)’s response to Ebert fails because it focuses on doxastic rather than propositional warrant. We then reject Ebert’s objection by showing that it depends on an implausibl…Read more
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273Transmission of Justification and WarrantThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2013.Transmission of justification across inference is a valuable and indeed ubiquitous epistemic phenomenon in everyday life and science. It is thanks to the phenomenon of epistemic transmission that inferential reasoning is a means for substantiating predictions of future events and, more generally, for expanding the sphere of our justified beliefs or reinforcing the justification of beliefs that we already entertain. However, transmission of justification is not without exceptions. As a few episte…Read more
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426Mizrahi’s argument against phenomenal conservatismThe Reasoner 7 (12): 137-139. 2013.I show that Mizrahi’s argument against Phenomenal Conservatism is fallacious.
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765Reason and Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory Coherentism. BY TED POSTON (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 208. Price £ 60.) (review)Philosophical Quarterly 67 (266): 204-206. 2017.
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742Global Scepticism, Underdetermination and Metaphysical PossibilityErkenntnis 79 (2): 381-403. 2014.I focus on a key argument for global external world scepticism resting on the underdetermination thesis: the argument according to which we cannot know any proposition about our physical environment because sense evidence for it equally justifies some sceptical alternative (e.g. the Cartesian demon conjecture). I contend that the underdetermination argument can go through only if the controversial thesis that conceivability is per se a source of evidence for metaphysical possibility is true. I a…Read more
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1133When warrant transmits and when it doesn’t: towards a general frameworkSynthese 190 (13): 2481-2503. 2013.In this paper we focus on transmission and failure of transmission of warrant. We identify three individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for transmission of warrant, and we show that their satisfaction grounds a number of interesting epistemic phenomena that have not been sufficiently appreciated in the literature. We then scrutinise Wright’s analysis of transmission failure and improve on extant readings of it. Nonetheless, we present a Bayesian counterexample that shows that W…Read more
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854Phenomenal Conservatism and Bergmann’s DilemmaErkenntnis 80 (6): 1271-1290. 2015.In this paper we argue that Michael Huemer’s phenomenal conservatism—the internalist view according to which our beliefs are prima facie justified if based on how things seems or appears to us to be—doesn’t fall afoul of Michael Bergmann’s dilemma for epistemological internalism. We start by showing that the thought experiment that Bergmann adduces to conclude that is vulnerable to his dilemma misses its target. After that, we distinguish between two ways in which a mental state can contribute t…Read more
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1295Chris Tucker (ed.), Seemings and Justification: New Essays on Dogmatism and Phenomenal Conservatism, NY: OUP (2013) (review)Philosophical Quarterly 64 (255): 364-366. 2014.
Luca Moretti
University of Eastern Piedmont
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University of Eastern PiedmontProfessor
APA Central Division
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophy of Education |
Social Ontology |
Areas of Interest
Critical Theory |
Government and Democracy |