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Xvi. Deutscher Kongreß Für Philosophie. "neue Realitäten - Herausforderungen Der Philosophie"Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 48 (2): 292-299. 1994.
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55Transcendental Arguments and RealismIn Hans-Johann Glock (ed.), Strawson and Kant, Oxford University Press. pp. 205--218. 2003.
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147How reliabilism saves the apriori/aposteriori distinctionSynthese 192 (9): 2747-2768. 2015.Contemporary epistemologists typically define a priori justification as justification that is independent of sense experience. However, sense experience plays at least some role in the production of many paradigm cases of a priori justified belief. This raises the question of when experience is epistemically relevant to the justificatory status of the belief that is based on it. In this paper, I will outline the answers that can be given by the two currently dominant accounts of justification, i…Read more
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180Die Experimentelle Philosophie in der Diskussion (edited book)Suhrkamp. 2014.Philosophen berufen sich in Gedankenexperimenten oft auf Intuitionen. Doch werden diese Intuitionen auch von anderen Philosophen oder von philosophischen Laien geteilt? Und durch welche Faktoren werden sie eigentlich bestimmt? Experimentelle Philosophen gehen solchen Fragen seit einigen Jahren mit empirischen Methoden auf den Grund. Ihre Ergebnisse sind mitunter verblüffend und haben für Aufsehen gesorgt. Der vorliegende Band lässt führende Vertreter und Gegner dieser wachsenden Bewegung zu Wort…Read more
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Wenn der Determinismus wahr ware... Uber die Möglichkeit von Willensfreiheit in der natiirlichen Welt1In Andreas Bächli & Klaus Petrus (eds.), Monism, Ontos. pp. 9--293. 2003.
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174Reliabilism and the problem of defeatersGrazer Philosophische Studien 79 (1): 65-76. 2009.It is widely assumed that justification is defeasible, e.g. that under certain conditions counterevidence removes prior justification of beliefs. In this paper I will first (sect. 1) explain why this feature of justification poses a prima facie problem for reliabilism. I then will try out different reliabilist strategies to deal with the problem. Among them I will discuss conservative strategies (sect. 2), eliminativist stragies (sect. 3) and revisionist strategies (sect. 4). In the final sectio…Read more
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106Erratum to: Thought experiments and the problem of deviant realizationsPhilosophical Studies 170 (3): 535-536. 2014.Erratum to: Philos Stud DOI 10.1007/s11098-013-0226-3Dear Reader, due to production systems the following changes could not be made to this article:In the paragraph immediately preceding the case description (ford-iii), the sentenceHere we explicitly state that Smith’s inference is based only on his belief that Jones owns a Ford, and that this logical inference provides Smith’s only justification for believing that someone in his office owns a Ford (to make things fully precise, we also add a ti…Read more
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162Bonjour‘s Self-Defeating Argument for CoherentismErkenntnis 50 (2-3): 463-479. 1999.One of the most influential arguments for the coherence theory of empirical justification is BonJours a priori argument from the internalist regress. According to this argument, foundationalism cannot solve the problem of the internalist regress since internalism is incompatible with basic beliefs. Hence, coherentism seems to be the only option. In my article I contend that this argument is doomed to failure. It is either too strong or too weak. Too strong, since even coherentism cannot stop the…Read more
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109Experimental Philosophy and its Critics (edited book)Routledge. 2012.Experimental philosophy is one of the most recent and controversial developments in philosophy. Its basic idea is rather simple: to test philosophical thought experiments and philosophers’ intuitions about them with scientific methods, mostly taken from psychology and the social sciences. The ensuing experimental results, such as the cultural relativity of certain philosophical intuitions, has engaged – and at times infuriated – many more traditionally minded "armchair" philosophers since then. …Read more
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Transcendental Arguments. Problems and Prospects; Transcendental Arguments and Scepticism. Answering the Question of Justification (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 56 (2). 2002.
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44Inferential Contextualism, Epistemological Realism and Scepticism: Comments on WilliamsErkenntnis 61 (2-3): 345-352. 2004.In this paper I will discuss Michael Williamss inferential contextualism – a position that must be carefully distinguished from the currently more fashionable attributer contextualism. I will argue that Williamss contextualism is not stable, though it avoids some of the shortcomings of simple inferential contextualism. In particular, his criticism of epistemological realism cannot be supported on the basis of his own account. I will also argue that we need not give up epistemological realism in …Read more
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32Das erkenntnistheoretische RegreßargumentZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 55 (2). 2001.Wenn von dem epistemischen Regreßargument die Rede ist, dann denkt man gewöhnlich an ein Argument für den erkenntnistheoretischen Fundamentalismus: Um einen drohenden Begründungsregreß zu vermeiden, muß man annehmen, daß es sogenannte basale Meinungen gibt, die nicht durch andere Meinungen (oder propositionale Zustände inferentiell gerechtfertigt werden, sondern unmittelbar gerechtfertigt sind. Das fundamentalistische Regreßargument ist jedoch nur eine mögliche Reaktion auf das zugrundeliegende …Read more
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811Doubts about Philosophy? The Alleged Challenge from DisagreementIn Tim Henning & David P. Schweikard (eds.), Knowledge, Virtue, and Action: Putting Epistemic Virtues to Work, Routledge. pp. 72-98. 2013.In philosophy, as in many other disciplines and domains, stable disagreement among peers is a widespread and well-known phenomenon. Our intuitions about paradigm cases, e.g. Christensen's Restaurant Case, suggest that in such controversies suspension of judgment is rationally required. This would prima facie suggest a robust suspension of judgment in philosophy. But we are still lacking a deeper theoretical explanation of why and under what conditions suspension is rationally mandatory. In the f…Read more