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33Evidence and Inquiry (review)Philosophical Review 104 (4): 621-623. 1995.For some time, it seemed that one had to choose between two sharply different theories of epistemic justification, foundationalism and coherentism. Foundationalists typically held that some beliefs were certain, and, hence, basic. Basic beliefs could impart justification to other, non-basic beliefs, but needed no such support themselves. Coherentists denied that there are any basic beliefs; on their view, all justified beliefs require support from other beliefs. The divide between foundationalis…Read more
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26Are there Counterexamples to the Closure PrincipleIn Roth Michael & Ross Glenn (eds.), Doubting: Contemporary Perspetcives on Scepticism, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 13-29. 1990.
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243SubjunctivitisPhilosophical Studies 134 (1). 2007.Subjunctivitis is the doctrine that what is distinctive about knowledge is essential modal in character, and thus is captured by certain subjunctive conditionals. One principal formulation of subjunctivism invokes a ``sensitivity condition'' (Nozick, De Rose), the other invokes a ``safety condition'' (Sosa). It is shown in detail how defects in the sensitivity condition generate unwanted results, and that the virtues of that condition are merely apparent. The safety condition is untenable also, …Read more
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10Internalist Responses to SkepticismIn John Greco (ed.), The Oxford handbook of skepticism, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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1173Cartesian Skepticism and Inference to the Best ExplanationJournal of Philosophy 87 (11): 658-666. 1990.
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Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |