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20Knowing failably and Moorean assertionsPhilosophical Issues 32 (1): 32-45. 2022.Knowledge‐fallibilism is a species of a genus that I call knowledge‐failabilism. Each is a theory of knowledge's nature. One apparent challenge to knowledge‐failabilism's truth is theprima facieabsurdity of Moorean assertions like ‘It's raining but I do not believe that it is.’ Does each such assertion convey an implicit and unfortunate contrast, even a contradiction? I argue that thisUntenable Contrast analysisfails: no such contrast is present within the speaker's perspective at the pertinent …Read more
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20The Cartesian Dreaming Argument for External‐World SkepticismIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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20What the Ancients Offer to Contemporary Epistemology (edited book)Routledge. 2019.This book encourages renewed attention by contemporary epistemologists to an area most of them overlook: ancient philosophy. Readers are invited to revisit writings by Plato, Aristotle, Pyrrho, and others, and to ask what new insights might be gained from those philosophical ancestors. Are there ideas, questions, or lines of thought that were present in some ancient philosophy and that have subsequently been overlooked? Are there contemporary epistemological ideas, questions, or lines of thought…Read more
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20Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy (edited book)Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018."Divided chronologically into four volumes, The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Each volume follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew. Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy covers discussions about scientific knowledge, social knowledge, and self-knowledge, along with attempts to understand knowledge naturalistically, contextually…Read more
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17After Certainty: A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions, by Robert Pasnau: New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. iii + 384, £55 (hardback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (1): 211-211. 2019.
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16What Makes a Great Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers (edited book)Routledge. 2017.This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead, rewardingly close studies of philosophical greatness are developed. This is a scholarly yet accessible volume, blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents. The result is a series of case studies by accomplished scholars, each chapter trying to understand and convey a particular philosopher…Read more
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16A Fallibilist and Wholly Internalist Solution to the Gettier ProblemJournal of Philosophical Research 26 307-324. 2001.How can a person avoid being Gettiered? This paper provides the first answer to that question that is both fallibilist and purely internalist. It is an answer that allows the justified-true-belief analysis of knowledge to survive Gettier’s attack (albeit as a nonreductionist analysis of knowledge).
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16The Cartesian dreaming argument for external-world skepticismIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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14Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy!: An Introduction to Metaphysics and EpistemologyEdinburgh University Press. 2019.This textbook introduction offers a new way of approaching metaphysics and epistemology - via links to ethical and social questions. It asks questions such as: Fundamentally, what are we? And what, if anything, do we know?
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14Tooley's Theory of Laws of NatureCanadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (1): 101-114. 1983.This paper contains a discussion of a theory of laws of nature formulated recently by Michael Tooley. He sees the truth-makers for laws of nature as consisting of particular sorts of contingent relations between universals. He is not alone in this idea; it has also been advanced by Fred Dretske and D.M. Armstrong. However, its most thorough and detailed presentation is by Tooley. Being a challenging and stimulating idea, it merits investigation.
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12Should you be afraid? Aloneness scepticism and DescartesThink 17 (50): 15-25. 2018.Philosophers routinely claim that sceptical arguments are not only intellectually but also emotionally confronting. When students first meet these arguments, though, no fear arises. This article presents aloneness scepticism: you never know that other people are not aiming to deceive you or at least not caring about being truthful. Imagine raising this possibility in a classroom by directing it at a single student. He or she should feel fear.Export citation.
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12Knowing-ToIn Karyn Lai (ed.), Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy: Epistemology Extended, Springer Nature. pp. 17-41. 2021.Increasingly, epistemologists are discussing the conceptual relationships between knowledge-that and knowledge-how. This chapter argues that epistemology should also encompass a distinct concept of knowing-to. Only with the addition of knowing-to can knowledge-how ever be manifested in a particular action within a particular setting. Unlike the possibly longer-lasting knowledge-how, knowing-to is fleeting and contextual. It is inherent within what Gilbert Ryle called intelligent acting. In ordin…Read more
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12Knowledge Puzzles: An Introduction to EpistemologyPhilosophical Quarterly 49 (194): 109-111. 1996.
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12Knowledge that works: A tale of two conceptual modelsIn Aspects of Knowing, Elsevier Science. pp. 219--240. 2006.
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11The Standard Analytic Conception of KnowledgeIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: ‘Knowing is a Belief State (or Something Similar)’ ‘Knowledge is Well Supported’ ‘Knowledge is Absolute’ ‘Knowing Includes not being Gettiered’ ‘Knowledge‐that is Fundamentally Theoretical, not Knowledge‐how’ The Standard Analytic Conception of Knowledge Prima Facie Core Problems.
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11Re: Brains in a VatDialectica 54 (4): 307-312. 2000.The hypothesis that we are brains in a vat is one which we believe to be false. Could it possibly be true, however? Metaphysical realists accept that our believing it to be false does not entail its falsity. They also accept that if –as brains in a vat –we were to say or think “We are brains in a vat”, then we would be correct. Ever the claimed foe of the metaphysical realist, though, Hilary Putnam argues that the brains‐in‐a‐vat hypothesis cannot be true, in particular that if we were brains in…Read more
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10What is epistemology?Polity. 2019.Doing epistemology -- Kinds of knowledge? -- A first theory of knowledge -- Refining our theory of knowledge -- Is it even possible to have knowledge? -- Applying epistemology.
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8Review of Nicholas Rescher, Ideas in Process: A Study on the Development of Philosophical Concepts (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (8). 2009.
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8Defining KnowledgeCambridge University Press. 2022.Post-Gettier epistemology is increasingly modalized epistemology – proposing and debating modally explicable conditionals with suitably epistemic content (an approach initially inspired by Robert Nozick's 1981 account of knowledge), as needing to be added to 'true belief' in order to define or understand knowing's nature. This Element asks whether such modalized attempts – construed as responding to what the author calls Knowing's Further Features question (bequeathed to us by the Meno and the T…Read more
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7Stephen Hetherington on epistemology: knowing, more or lessBloomsbury Academic. 2024.Stephen Hetherington's prominent career within epistemology has been a series of distinctive, bold, varied and provocative arguments and ideas. Bringing together Hetherington's unique body of writing for the first time, this collection features previously published as well as new material that link his approaches to key issues including knowledge, justification, fallibility, scepticism and the Gettier Problem. Advancing our understanding of the systemic nature of Hetherington's thinking, Stephen…Read more
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7Gettier? No ProblemIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Gettier Situations A Counter‐Example to ‘Gettier's Official Result’ Ordinary Gettiered Knowledge A Meta‐Gettier Problem Objections Answered Gettier‐Luck as Veritic Luck? Gettier‐Luck is not Veritic Luck Gettier‐Luck is Combinatorial Luck Combinatorial Luck: Applications Knowing in a Combinatorially Lucky Way Gettier‐Holism Versus Gettier‐Partialism Combinatorial Safety Combinatorial Gradational Safety Epistemological Privilege and Epistemological Empathy Ge…Read more
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6Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill Hintikka, The Logic of Epistemology and The Epistemology of Logic Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 10 (4): 144-146. 1990.
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6Knowledge‐That as Knowledge‐HowIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: The Rylean Distinction The Rylean Argument Wittgenstein on Rule‐following The Knowledge‐as‐Ability Hypothesis Justification Grades of Knowledge Denying Knowledge‐Absolutism: Clear Precedents Denying Knowledge‐Absolutism: Possibly only Apparent Precedents Sceptical Challenges Sceptical Limitations Epistemic Agents Abilities Rylean Mistakes Conclusion.
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