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127Though he’s perhaps best known for his work on vagueness, Timothy Williamson also produced a series of outstanding papers in epistemology in the late 1980's and the 1990's. Knowledge and its Limits brings this work together. The result is, in my opinion, the best book in epistemology to come out since 1975.
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47``The Conditionals of Deliberation"Mind 119 (473): 1-42. 2010.Practical deliberation often involves conditional judgements about what will happen if certain alternatives are pursued. It is widely assumed that the conditionals useful in deliberation are counterfactual or subjunctive conditionals. Against this, I argue that the conditionals of deliberation are indicatives. Key to the argument is an account of the relation between ‘straightforward’ future-directed conditionals like ‘If the house is not painted, it will soon look quite shabby’ and ‘ “were”ed-u…Read more
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115Skepticism: a contemporary reader (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1999.Recently, new life has been breathed into the ancient philosophical topic of skepticism. The subject of some of the best and most provocative work in contemporary philosophy, skepticism has been addressed not only by top epistemologists but also by several of the world's finest philosophers who are most known for their work in other areas of the discipline. Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader brings together the most important recent contributions to the discussion of skepticism. Covering major ap…Read more
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812Contextualism and knowledge attributionsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (4): 913-929. 1992.
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2Questioning evidentialismIn Trent Dougherty (ed.), Evidentialism and its Discontents, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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22Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (1): 238-241. 1998.
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283Gradable adjectives: A defence of pluralismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (1): 141-160. 2008.This paper attacks the Implicit Reference Class Theory of gradable adjectives and proposes instead a ?pluralist? approach to the semantics of those terms, according to which they can be governed by a variety of different types of standards, one, but only one, of which is the group-indexed standards utilized by the Implicit Reference Class Theory
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236The problem with subject-sensitive invariantismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2). 2004.Thomas Blackson does not question that my argument in section 2 of “Assertion, Knowledge and Context” establishes the conclusion that the standards that comprise a truth-condition for “I know that P” vary with context, but does claim that this does not suffice to validly demonstrate the truth of contextualism, because this variance in standards can be handled by what we will here call Subject-Sensitive Invariantism (SSI), and so does not demand a contextualist treatment. According to SSI, the va…Read more
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24Can It Be That It Would Have Been Even Though It Might Not Have Been?Noûs 33 (s13): 385-413. 1999.
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