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56Reason and ExplanationPalgrave Macmillan. 2014.Reason and Explanation develops a new explanationist account of epistemic justification. Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide a plausible account of necessary and sufficient conditions for justification. The justification of a subject's belief consists in the explanatory virtue of her entire beliefs compared with other sets of beliefs she could have. Poston's argument for coherentism involves a defense of the epistemic value of background beliefs, the development of a novel fram…Read more
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55Critical Notice: Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the demands of structural rationality (review)Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 803-810. 2022.Alex Worsnip's recent book, Fitting Things Together: Coherence and the Demands of Structural Rationality, provides a sustained, wide-ranging defence of dualism
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39The Mystery of Skepticism: New Explorations (edited book)Brill. 2018.The thirteen newly commissioned essays in _The Mystery of Skepticism: New Explorations_ represent the cutting-edge of research on underexplored skeptical challenges, dimensions of the skeptical problematic, and responses to various kinds of skepticism.
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34Review of Paul J. Weithman (ed.), Liberal Faith: Essays in Honor of Philip Quinn (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (2). 2010.
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32Is There an ‘I’ in Epistemology?Dialectica 66 (4): 517-541. 2012.Epistemic conservatism is the thesis that the mere holding of a belief confers some positive epistemic status on its content. Conservatism is widely criticized on the grounds that it conflicts with the main goal in epistemology to believe truths and disbelieve falsehoods. In this paper I argue for conservatism and defend it from objections. First, I argue that the objection to conservatism from the truth goal in epistemology fails. Second, I develop and defend an argument for conservatism from t…Read more
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27Richard Swinburne, Mind, Brain, & Free Will (review)Journal of Analytic Theology 4 480-484. 2016._ _.
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24Hyperintensional evidence and Bayesian coherenceAsian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 1-13. 2024.Bayesian approaches to rationality require that a person’s degrees of belief be coherent. Among other implications, coherence requires that a person has the same degree of belief in every logically equivalent proposition. However, a person can have evidence for a claim without having evidence for all its propositional equivalences. This paper explores this conflict and argues that a person may be perfectly rational by virtue of responding to their evidence, even if their credences are not cohere…Read more
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13The Mystery of Skepticism: New Explorations (edited book)Brill. 2018.The thirteen newly commissioned essays in _The Mystery of Skepticism: New Explorations_ represent the cutting-edge of research on underexplored skeptical challenges, dimensions of the skeptical problematic, and responses to various kinds of skepticism.
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7Reason and Explanation: A Defense of Explanatory CoherentismPalgrave Macmillan UK. 2014.In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the materials necessary for a plausible account of justified belief. There are no purely autonomous reasons. Rather reasons occur only within an explanatory coherent set of beliefs.
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Explanation and evidenceIn Maria Lasonen-Aarnio & Clayton Littlejohn (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence, Routledge. 2019.
University Of Missouri
Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
Philosophy of Medicine |
Areas of Interest
Formal Epistemology |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Religion |
PhilPapers Editorships
Coherentism |
Coherentism, Misc |
Epistemology of Specific Domains |