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26Arguing About Knowledge (edited book)Routledge. 2008.What is knowledge? What are the sources of knowledge? What is the value of knowledge? What can we know? _Arguing About Knowledge_ offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the theory of knowledge. This comprehensive and imaginative selection of readings examines the subject in an unorthodox and entertaining manner whilst covering the fundamentals of the theory of knowledge. It includes classic and contemporary pieces from the most influential philosophers from Descartes, Russell, Quine and G.E.…Read more
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24Book symposium on Ernest sosa’s epistemic explanationsPhilosophical Topics 49 (2): 385-404. 2021.Ernest Sosa’s new monograph, Epistemic Explanations, develops an important new account of epistemic evaluation, epistemic normativity, and the explanatory role of these. The first two sections of the present paper develop an interpretation of Sosa’s metaphysics of the mental states of rational agents as a version of hylomorphism. The second half of the paper uses this hylomorphic view to argue that Sosa can account for differences among the various kinds of knowledge by appeal to nothing more th…Read more
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23Can a priori entitlement be preserved by testimonyIn Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Social Epistemology, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 194--215. 2010.
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22Should we swap internal foundations for virtues?Critica 42 (125): 63-76. 2010.Internalist foundationalism was popular through much of the history of Western epistemology, but has been subjected to intense critical scrutiny in the last century. Ernest Sosa's new book presents some novel and seemingly powerful arguments against internalist foundationalism. After laying out these arguments, I attempt to rebut them. I argue that Sosa does not, after all, give us good reason for abandoning internalist foundationalism. El fundacionismo internista ha sido muy popular a lo largo …Read more
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16The nature and reach of privileged accessIn Anthony Hatzimoysis (ed.), Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press. 2008.Many philosophers accept a “privileged access” thesis concerning our own present mental states and mental events. According to these philosophers, if I am in mental state (or undergoing mental event) M, then – at least in many cases – I have privileged access to the fact that I am in (or undergoing) M. For instance, if I now believe that my cat is sitting on my lap, then (in normal circumstances) I have privileged access to the fact that I now believe that my cat is sitting on my lap. Similarly,…Read more
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12Fixing the Transmission: The New MooreansIn Susana Nuccetelli & Gary Seay (eds.), Themes From G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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9How to naturalize epistemologyIn Vincent Hendricks (ed.), New Waves in Epistemology, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 324--353. 2007.Since the publication of W.V. Quine’s “Epistemology Naturalized”1, a growing number of self-described “naturalist” epistemologists have come to hold a particular view of what epistemology can and ought to be. In order to articulate this naturalist view, let me begin by describing the epistemological work that the naturalist tends to criticize – a motley that I will refer to collectively as “non-naturalist epistemology”. I will describe this motley in terms that are designed to capture the natura…Read more
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8D efeating the Dogma of DefeasibilityIn Patrick Greenough, Duncan Pritchard & Timothy Williamson (eds.), Williamson on Knowledge, Oxford University Press. pp. 161--82. 2009.
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5Mario De Caro and David Macarthur, eds., Naturalism in Question (review)Philosophical Review 116 (4): 657-663. 2007.
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2The Transparency of InferenceIn Anders Nes & Timothy Hoo Wai Chan (eds.), Inference and Consciousness, Routledge. 2019.
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1How is thinking possible?In James Conant & Jesse M. Mulder (eds.), Reading Rödl: on Self-consciousness and objectivity, Routledge. 2023.
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1Causal Theories of Knowledge and PerceptionIn Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock & Peter Menzies (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Causation, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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The motivating power of the a priori obviousIn Karen Jones & François Schroeter (eds.), The Many Moral Rationalisms, Oxford Univerisity Press. 2018.
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Introduction to part sixIn Duncan Pritchard & Ram Neta (eds.), Arguing About Knowledge, Routledge. pp. 211. 2008.
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The Instability of SkepticismDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1997.According to "skepticism about the external world", one cannot know whether there are any things that have these two characteristics: they exist, or occur, at, or come from, some place, and they might have existed even had no one been conscious of them. In attempting to show that one cannot know whether or not there are any such things, the skeptic appeals to the alleged fact that one cannot rule out various possibilities, e.g., the possibility that one is dreaming. But, if one cannot rule out t…Read more
University of Pittsburgh
PhD, 1997
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |