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74Everything FirstAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 97 (1): 248-272. 2023.Normative theory aims to understand the commonalities between ethics, prudence, epistemology, aesthetics and political philosophy (among others). One central question in normative theory is what is fundamental to the normative. The reasons-first approach holds that normative reasons are fundamental to the normative domain. This view has been challenged by proponents of alternative X-first views such as value, fittingness and ought. This paper examines the debate about the analysis of normative r…Read more
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70Enriched Perceptual Content and the Limits of FoundationalismPhilosophical Topics 49 (2): 151-171. 2021.This paper is about the epistemology of perceptual experiences that have enriched high-level content. Enriched high-level content is content about features other than shape, color, and spatial relations that has a particular etiology. Its etiology runs through states of the agent that process other perceptual content and output sensory content about high-level features. My main contention is that the justification provided by such experiences is not foundational justification. This is because th…Read more
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66The Nature of Perceptual Expertise and the Rationality of CriticismErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 6. 2019.
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57Reasons FirstSchroeder, Mark, Reasons First, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. v + 274, $40 (hardback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.Mark Schroeder's latest book elegantly brings together two strands of his research program that have been in development for nearly two decades. The first is his work in epistemology; the second is...
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53Acting for the Right Reasons, Abilities, and ObligationOxford Studies in Metaethics 10. 2015.Objectivists about obligation hold that obligations are determined by all of the normatively relevant facts. Perspectivalists, on the other hand, hold that only facts within one’s perspective can determine what we are obligated to do. This chapter argues for a perspectivalist view. It argues that what you are obligated to do is determined by the normative reasons you possess. This view is anchored in the thought that our obligations have to be action-guiding in a certain sense—we have to be able…Read more
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51Action, Knowledge, and Will, by John Hyman. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015, xi + 255 pp. ISBN 13:978‐0‐19‐873577‐9 hb £35.00 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 24 (4). 2016.
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48No one has done more for analytic virtue epistemology than Ernie Sosa; indeed, one is tempted to delete ‘virtue’. This is his latest development of his teleolog.
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48Replies to Schafer, Schroeder, and StaffelPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (2): 476-487. 2020.
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40From Independence to Conciliationism: An ObituaryAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (2): 365-377. 2014.Conciliationists about peer disagreement hold that when one disagrees with an epistemic peer about some proposition p, one should significantly change one's view about p. Many arguments for conciliationism appeal to a principle Christensen [2011] dubs Independence. Independence says that evaluations of the beliefs of those with whom one disagrees should not be made on the basis of one's initial reasoning about p. In this paper, I show that this principle is false. I also show that two weaker pri…Read more
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33The real symmetry problem for wide-scope accounts of rationalityPhilosophical Studies 170 (3): 443-464. 2014.You are irrational when you are akratic. On this point most agree. Despite this agreement, there is a tremendous amount of disagreement about what the correct explanation of this data is. Narrow-scopers think that the correct explanation is that you are violating a narrow-scope conditional requirement. You lack an intention to x that you are required to have given the fact that you believe you ought to x. Wide-scopers disagree. They think that a conditional you are required to make true is false…Read more
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32Love: A new understanding of an ancient emotion, by Simon May. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 288 pp. hbk. ISBN: 9780190884833 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 30 (1): 440-443. 2022.European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 440-443, March 2022.
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28Précis of The Importance of Being RationalPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (2): 452-456. 2020.
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27Action, Knowledge, and Will, by John Hyman. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015, xi + 255 pp. ISBN 13:978‐0‐19‐873577‐9 hb £35.00 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 25 (1): 173-178. 2016.
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21The Importance of Being RationalBy Errol Lord Oxford University Press, 2018. ix + 278 pp. $47.49 (review)Analysis 81 (1): 130-132. 2021._Summary_
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3An Opinionated Guide to the Weight of ReasonsIn Errol Lord & Barry Maguire (eds.), Weighing Reasons, Oup Usa. 2016.
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Evidence and epistemic reasonsIn Maria Lasonen-Aarnio & Clayton Littlejohn (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence, Routledge. 2019.
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