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    Seemings: New Arguments, New Angles (edited book)
    Routledge. 2023.
    This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact, epistemological theories such as phenomenal conservatism and dogmatism give pride of place to seemings. Such views insist that seemings are of central importance to theories of epistemic justification. However, there are many quest…Read more
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    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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    Moral Truth and Coherence: Comments on Goldman
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 29 (S1): 185-188. 1991.
  •  18
    Harmless 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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    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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    Eplstemic Justification. Essays In the Theory of Knowledge, by William Alston (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 228-232. 1992.
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    Epistemology’s Paradox (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 27 (2): 118-120. 1995.
  •  12
    Real 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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    A collection of vigorous debates on some of the most controversial topics in recent theoretical epistemology.
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    Epistemology’s Paradox (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 27 (2): 118-120. 1995.
  •  2
    Evidentialist anti-skepticism
    In Trent Dougherty (ed.), Evidentialism and its Discontents, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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    Are Mental States Luminous?
    In Duncan Pritchard & Patrick Greenough (eds.), Williamson on Knowledge, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 217--36. 2009.
  • The Directly and the Indirectly Evident
    Dissertation, 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
  • The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (3rd Edition) (edited book)
    with Kurt Sylvan, Jonathan Dancy, and Ernest Sosa
    Wiley Blackwell. forthcoming.
  • Radu J. Bogdan, ed., Profiles: Roderick M. Chisholm (review)
    Philosophy in Review 7 435-437. 1987.
  • Virtues of the Mind (review)
    Dialogue 38 (3): 619-621. 1999.
  • Control over and responsibility for belief
    In Taylor W. Cyr, Andrew Law & Neal A. Tognazzini (eds.), Freedom, Responsibility, and Value: Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer, Routledge. 2023.