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1Three Challenges To Jamesian EthicsWilliam James Studies 6 3-9. 2011.Classical pragmatism is committed to the thought that philosophy must be relevant to ordinary life. This commitment is frequently employed critically: to show that some idea is irrelevant to ordinary life is to prove it to be expendable. But the commitment is also constructive: pragmatists must strive to make their positive views relevant. Accordingly, one would expect the classical pragmatists to have fixed their attention on ethics, since this is the area of philosophy most attuned to everyday…Read more
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Pragmatism and epistemologyIn Markos Valaris & Stephen Hetherington (eds.), Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018.
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Kevin Scharp and Robert Brandom, eds., In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 44 (2): 363-366. 2008.
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Infinitism (3rd ed.)In Kurt Sylvan, Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Dancy & Matthias Steup (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, 3rd edition, Wiley Blackwell. forthcoming.
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The Ethics of Inquiry and Engagement: The Case of Science in PublicPublic Affairs Quarterly 24 (2): 155-168. 2010.There has been a promising discussion brewing recently about whether there is an ethics of inquiry—that is, a unique set of ethical rules that constrains inquirers specifically in their role as inquirers. Most prominently, Philip Kitcher has proposed that there is indeed an ethics of inquiry. He argues that, given the intellectual climate of many modern societies, certain research programs are likely to encourage further social injustice against members of already disadvantaged groups; in such c…Read more
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