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47Does Phenomenal Conservatism Solve Internalism’s Dilemma?In Chris Tucker (ed.), Seemings and Justification: New Essays on Dogmatism and Phenomenal Conservatism, Oxford University Press Usa. pp. 135. 2013.
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45Harmless naturalism: The limits of science and the nature of philosophyPhilosophical Review 109 (3): 462-465. 2000.Should we only believe what science can prove? Robert Almeder analyzes "naturalized epistemology," which holds that the only valid claims that can be made about the world must be proven by the natural sciences and that all philosophical questions are ultimately answered by science. The author examines and refutes different forms of naturalized epistemology before settling on "harmless naturalism," a compromise which implies that certain questions about the world are answerable and have been answ…Read more
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37Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of the Mind (review)Dialogue 38 (3): 619-621. 1999.In recent years, what is commonly referred to as “virtue epistemology” has gained momentum. One of the first to champion this approach with much force and sophistication was Ernest Sosa. James Montmarquet has contributed to the ascendancy of virtue epistemology with a fine monograph, and Alvin Goldman has, at least indirectly, confirmed the attraction of this approach by rephrasing his latest version of reliabilism in terms of epistemic virtues and vices. In Virtues of the Mind, Linda Zagzebski …Read more
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28Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy (review)Philosophical Review 109 (3): 462. 2000.In this book, Almeder distinguishes between three kinds of naturalism: Quine’s recommendation to replace traditional epistemology with science; the kind of reliabilism advocated in Alvin Goldman’s Epistemology and Cognition, according to which traditional epistemology should at least partially be transformed into science; and the kind Almeder himself proposes, which he calls “harmless” naturalism. The former two are examples of scientism: according to Almeder, the mistaken view that the only ans…Read more
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25Epistemic Dilemmas: New Arguments, New Angles (edited book)Routledge. 2021.It seems plausible that there can be “no win” moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is there an epistemic analog to moral dilemmas? Are there epistemically dilemmatic situations—situations in which we are doomed to violate an epistemic requirement? If there are, when exactly do they arise and what can we learn from them? A team of top epistemologists address these and closely related questions from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. Anyon…Read more
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23Moral Truth and Coherence: Comments on GoldmanSouthern Journal of Philosophy 29 (S1): 185-188. 1991.
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21Eplstemic Justification. Essays In the Theory of Knowledge, by William Alston (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 228-232. 1992.
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12A Defense of InternalismIn L. Pojman (ed.), The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 2nd edition, Wadsworth Publishing. 1999.
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12Real Knowing New Versions of the Coherence Theory (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (3): 740-743. 2002.In this book, which is as much about postmodern continental philosophy as about analytic epistemology, Alcoff argues that epistemology is in need of a reorientation away from foundationalism and metaphysical realism toward coherentism and what Alcoff calls “immanent” realism. Alcoff begins, in the book’s introduction, by making an initial case for coherentism and against dismissing epistemology altogether. She considers it a valuable postmodernist insight that philosophical theorizing reflects s…Read more
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10Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, 2nd EditionWiley-Blackwell. 2008.A collection of vigorous debates on some of the most controversial topics in recent theoretical epistemology.
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2Are Mental States Luminous?In Duncan Pritchard & Patrick Greenough (eds.), Williamson on Knowledge, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 217--36. 2009.
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2Evidentialist anti-skepticismIn Trent Dougherty (ed.), Evidentialism and its Discontents, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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1Control over and responsibility for beliefIn Taylor W. Cyr, Andrew Law & Neal A. Tognazzini (eds.), Freedom, Responsibility, and Value: Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer, Routledge. 2023.
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Two forms of antiskepticismIn Susana Nuccetelli (ed.), New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge, Mit Press. 2003.
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Twentieth centuryIn Dermot Moran (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 469. 2008.
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The Directly and the Indirectly EvidentDissertation, Brown University. 1985.Two claims are essential to foundationalist theories of knowledge. First, that there are directly evident propositions; secondly, that, in justifying a particular knowledge claim, one ultimately arrives at a directly evident proposition making another proposition evident. In this dissertation, both claims are being defended. ;In defense of the first claim, a week definition of a proposition's being directly evident is suggested. Any attack against foundationalism rejecting the first claim must s…Read more
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The Chemistry of Epistemic JustifcationIn Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford & Matthias Steup (eds.), Seemings: New Arguments, New Angles, Routledge. 2023.
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