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Idealized Psychology and Doxastic LogicThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 1. 2005.
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60Are Names Ambiguous?ProtoSociology 21 148-159. 2005.It is widely held that proper names are ambiguous in some sense, a view commonly associated with the theory that names are, when suitably idealized, semantically “rigid designators”. In this brief paper I suggest that, while some refinement of the concept of a name is surely appropriate, proper names do not very clearly meet the standards normally used to determine ambiguity. There is reason to regard shared names as semantically univocal, including some evidence from development linguistics to …Read more
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112Oral History and The Epistemology of TestimonySocial Epistemology 30 (1): 45-66. 2016.Social epistemology has paid little attention to oral historiography as a source of expert insight into the credibility of testimony. One extant suggestion, however, is that oral historians treat testimony with a default trust reflecting a standing warrant for accepting testimony. The view that there is such a standing warrant is sometimes known as the Acceptance Principle for Testimony. I argue that the practices of oral historians do not count in support of APT, all in all. Experts have common…Read more
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University of WaterlooDepartment of Philosophy
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |