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Matthias Steup

University of Colorado, Boulder
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  • University of Colorado, Boulder
    Department of Philosophy
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Brown University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1985
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Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Knowledge
Skepticism
Metaphysics
Areas of Interest
Defeat
Dogmatism
Evidentialism
Foundationalism and Coherentism
Doxastic Voluntarism
Ethics of Belief
Perceptual Justification
Epistemology
Knowledge
Skepticism
Metaphysics
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  • All publications (68)
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    Epistemology’s Paradox (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 27 (2): 118-120. 1995.
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    Doxastic freedom
    Synthese 161 (3): 375-392. 2008.
    Belief
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    William Alston, perceiving God. The epistemology of religious experience
    Noûs 31 (3). 1997.
    Religious Experience
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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.
    Philosophy of MindPhilosophy of Consciousness
  • Twentieth century
    In Dermot Moran (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 469. 2008.
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    Knowledge, truth, and duty: essays on epistemic justification, responsibility, and virtue (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2001.
    This volume gathers eleven new and three previously unpublished essays that take on questions of epistemic justification, responsibility, and virtue. It contains the best recent work in this area by major figures such as Ernest Sosa, Robert Audi, Alvin Goldman, and Susan Haak.
    Epistemic VirtuesVirtue EpistemologyDoxastic VoluntarismEthics of BeliefJustification, Misc
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    Evidentialist anti-skepticism
    In Trent Dougherty (ed.), Evidentialism and its Discontents, Oxford University Press. 2011.
    Replies to Skepticism, Misc
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    Contextualism and conceptual disambiguation
    Acta Analytica 20 (1): 3-15. 2005.
    I distinguish between Old Contextualism, New Contextualism, and the Multiple Concepts Theory. I argue that Old Contextualism cannot handle the following three problems: (i) the disquotational paradox, (ii) upward pressure resistance, (iii) inability to avoid the acceptance of skeptical conclusions. New Contextualism, in contrast, can avoid these problems. However, since New Contextualism appears to be a semanticized mirror image of MCT, it remains unclear whether it is in fact a genuine version …Read more
    I distinguish between Old Contextualism, New Contextualism, and the Multiple Concepts Theory. I argue that Old Contextualism cannot handle the following three problems: (i) the disquotational paradox, (ii) upward pressure resistance, (iii) inability to avoid the acceptance of skeptical conclusions. New Contextualism, in contrast, can avoid these problems. However, since New Contextualism appears to be a semanticized mirror image of MCT, it remains unclear whether it is in fact a genuine version of contextualism.
    Contextualist Replies to Skepticism
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