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15Evaluating objections to a factive norm of beliefSynthese 199 (1-2): 2245-2250. 2020.According to the non-factive hypothesis, espoused by contemporary epistemologists, our ordinary practice of evaluating belief is insensitive to the truth. In other words, on the ordinary view, there is no evaluative connection between what someone should believe and whether their belief would be true. Contrary to that, the factive hypothesis holds that our ordinary practice of evaluating belief is sensitive to the truth. Results from recent behavioral studies strongly support the factive hypothe…Read more
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12Ad infinitum: new essays on epistemological infinitism (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.This volume presents new work on infinitism, the view that there are no foundational reasons for beliefs--an ancient view in epistemology, now growing again in popularity. Leading epistemologists illuminate its strengths and weaknesses, and address questions new and old about justification, reasoning, responsibility, disagreement, and trust.
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10Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, 2nd EditionWiley-Blackwell. 2008.A collection of vigorous debates on some of the most controversial topics in recent theoretical epistemology.
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9Preempting ParadoxLogos and Episteme 3 (4): 659-662. 2012.Charlie Pelling has recently argued that two leading accounts of the norm of assertion, the truth account and a version of the knowledge account, invite paradoxand so must be false. Pelling’s arguments assume that an isolated utterance of the sentence “This assertion is improper” counts as making an assertion. I argue that this assumption is questionable.
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6Knowledge Judgments in “Gettier” CasesIn Justin Sytsma & Wesley Buckwalter (eds.), A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.Knowledge sets the standard for appropriate assertion and recent evidence suggests that it might also set the standard for appropriate belief and decision‐making. Governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars to support the creation, transfer, and mobilization of knowledge. Philosophers have created a dizzying array of Gettier case thought experiments. In doing so, many have been guilty of experimenter bias. This includes some original players who helped set the agenda for decades to come. C…Read more
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5Virtue epistemologyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2017.This entry introduces many of the most important results of the contemporary Virtue epistemology (hereafter 'VE') research program. These include novel attempts to resolve longstanding disputes, solve perennial problems, grapple with novel challenges, and expand epistemology’s horizons. In the process, it reveals the diversity within VE. Beyond sharing the two unifying commitments mentioned above, its practitioners diverge over the nature of intellectual virtues, which questions to ask, and whic…Read more
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3A Peculiar and Perpetual Tendency: An Asymmetry in Knowledge Attributions for Affirmations and NegationsErkenntnis 87 (4): 1795-1808. 2020.From antiquity through the twentieth century, philosophers have hypothesized that, intuitively, it is harder to know negations than to know affirmations. This paper provides direct evidence for that hypothesis. In a series of studies, I found that people naturally view negations as harder to know than affirmations. Participants read simple scenarios and made judgments about truth, probability, belief, and knowledge. Participants were more likely to attribute knowledge of an outcome when framed a…Read more
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2Introduction to InfinitismIn John Turri & Peter D. Klein (eds.), Ad infinitum: new essays on epistemological infinitism, Oxford University Press. 2014.An introduction to infinitism.
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1A critical review of “Gettier” cases and theoretical attempts to solve “the” "Gettier" "problem"In Stephen Cade Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology: The Key Thinkers, Continuum. pp. 214-229. 2012.A critical review of “Gettier” cases and theoretical attempts to solve “the” "Gettier" "problem".
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1Introduction to Virtue EpistemologyIn John Greco & John Turri (eds.), Virtue Epistemology: Contemporary Readings, Mit Press. 2012.Virtue epistemology is by now a broad and varied field. Also by now, there are various helpful overviews of the field available, some of which are included in this volume (see especially Battaly 2008 and Baehr 2008).1 This introduction will not provide another. Rather, we will begin with a brief characterization of what virtue epistemology is (Section 1), and then briefly describe some of the topics that are treated in this volume (Section 2). Some of these are topics that have occupied ep…Read more
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1The value of knowledgeStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2018.The value of knowledge has always been a central topic within epistemology. Going all the way back to Plato’s Meno, philosophers have asked, why is knowledge more valuable than mere true belief? Interest in this question has grown in recent years, with theorists proposing a range of answers. But some reject the premise of the question and claim that the value of knowledge is ‘swamped’ by the value of true belief. And others argue that statuses other than knowledge, such as justification or under…Read more
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KnowledgeOxford Bibliographies Online. 2011.This article provides an annotated bibliography on the theory of knowledge.
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EpistemologyIn Byron Kaldis (ed.), Encyclopedia of philosophy and the social sciences, Sage. 2013.An overview of recent trends in epistemology.
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You gotta believeIn Clayton Littlejohn & John Turri (eds.), Epistemic Norms: New Essays on Action, Belief, and Assertion, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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Review of John Greco, Achieving Knowledge (review)Mind. forthcoming.A review of "Achieving Knowledge" by John Greco.
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University of WaterlooDepartment of PhilosophyCanada Research Chair In Philosophy and Cognitive Science
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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