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11Sanford GoldbergIn David Phiroze Christensen & Jennifer Lackey (eds.), The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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47Toward a Synthesis of Reliabilism and Evidentialism? Or: Evidentialism's Troubles, Reliabilism's Rescue PackageIn Trent Dougherty (ed.), Evidentialism and its Discontents, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 254-280. 2011.
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Discrimination and perceptual knowledgeIn Jonathan Dancy (ed.), Perceptual knowledge, Oxford University Press. 1988.
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What is Justified Belief?In George Pappas (ed.), Justification and Knowledge: New Studies in Epistemology, D. Reidel. 1979.
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Immediate justification and process reliabilismIn Quentin Smith (ed.), Epistemology: new essays, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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3Naturalizing metaphysics with the help of cognitive scienceIn Dean W. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. 2008.This chapter argues that empirical findings in cognitive science can play a significant evidential role in an optimal methodology for metaphysics. It does not propose any radical metaphysical methodology or any wholesale replacement of traditional methods. Rather, it offers a supplement to traditional methods. The chapter proposes a general template (or two) for metaphysical methodology under which cognitive scientific considerations might become routine or commonplace factors in realist metaphy…Read more
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5Sosa on Reflective Knowledge and Virtue PerspectivismIn John Greco (ed.), Ernest Sosa: And His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. 2004.This chapter contains section titled: Reflective versus Animal Knowledge Virtue Perspectivism.
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10Simulation Theory and Cognitive NeuroscienceIn Dominic Murphy & Michael Bishop (eds.), Stich, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-03-20.This chapter contains sections titled: Is Simulation a Natural Category? Simulation and Respects of Similarity Simulation and Motor Cognition Simulation and Face‐based Emotion Attribution Simulation is a Robust and Theoretically Interesting Category References.
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5Excerpt from “The Book of Life: A Thought Experiment”In Susan Schneider (ed.), Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter recounts an imaginary situation which the author confronts with while reading The Book of Life. Realizing that the book purports to be a book on his life, he decides to test it and defeat it by looking at a future entry, and turns to an entry 18 minutes hence. He closes the book, and opens it again after a few moments, and starts reading an earlier part of the book. After a period of 18 minutes, the author finds that he is actually reading the particular entry itself which he wanted…Read more
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376Is social cognition embodied?Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13 (4): 154-159. 2009.Theories of embodied cognition abound in the literature, but it is often unclear how to understand them. We offer several interpretations of embodiment, the most interesting being the thesis that mental representations in bodily formats (B-formats) have an important role in cognition. Potential B-formats include motoric, somatosensory, affective and interoceptive formats. The literature on mirroring and related phenomena provides support for a limited-scope version of embodied social cognition u…Read more
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1Experts: which ones should you trust?In Alvin I. Goldman & Dennis Whitcomb (eds.), Social Epistemology: Essential Readings, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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58Internalism exposedIn Steven Luper (ed.), Essential Knowledge: Readings in Epistemology, Longman. pp. 335. 2003.
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2Education and social epistemologyIn Amélie Rorty (ed.), Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 437-448. 1998.
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112Liaisons: Philosophy Meets the Cognitive and Social SciencesMIT Press. 1992.These essays by a major epistemologist reconfigure philosophical projects across a wide spectrum, from mind to metaphysics, from epistemology to social power. Several of Goldman's classic essays are included along with many newer writings. Together these trace and continue the development of the author's unique blend of naturalism and reliabilism. Part I defends the simulation approach to mentalistic ascription and explores the psychological mechanisms of ontological individuation. Part II shows…Read more
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Philosophical naturalism and intuitional methodologyIn Albert Casullo & Joshua C. Thurow (eds.), The a Priori in Philosophy, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 11-44. 2013.
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74A Different Solution to the Generality Problem for Process ReliabilismPhilosophical Topics 49 (2): 105-111. 2021.
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22Philosophical Applications of Cognitive ScienceRoutledge. 1993.One of the most fruitful interdisciplinary boundaries in contemporary scholarship is that between philosophy and cognitive science. Now that solid empirical results about the activities of the human mind are available, it is no longer necessary for philosophers to practice armchair psychology. In this short, accessible, and entertaining book, Alvin Goldman presents a masterly survey of recent work in cognitive science that has particular relevance to philosophy. Besides providing a valuable revi…Read more
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368Reliabilist EpistemologyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2021.One of the main goals of epistemologists is to provide a substantive and explanatory account of the conditions under which a belief has some desirable epistemic status (typically, justification or knowledge). According to the reliabilist approach to epistemology, any adequate account will need to mention the reliability of the process responsible for the belief, or truth-conducive considerations more generally. Historically, one major motivation for reliabilism—and one source of its enduring int…Read more
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160How Can You Spot the Experts? An Essay in Social EpistemologyRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 89 85-98. 2021.In the history of western philosophy, people were often encouraged to seek knowledge by starting from their own minds and proceeding in a highly individualistic spirit. In recent contemporary philosophy, by contrast, there is a movement toward Social Epistemology, which urges people to seek knowledge from what others know. However, in selected fields some people are experts while others are laypersons. It is natural for self-acknowledged laypersons to seek help from the experts. But who, exactly…Read more
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5On Epistemology and cognition: A response to the review by S.W. SmoliarArtificial Intelligence 34 (2): 265-267. 1988.
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The Sciences and EpistemologyIn Paul K. Moser (ed.), The Oxford handbook of epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2002.In “The Sciences and Epistemology,” Alvin Goldman argues that epistemology and the sciences should remain distinct yet cooperative. He presents several examples that illustrate the relevance of science to epistemology. Drawing from work in psychology, he proposes that science can shed light on epistemic achievements by contributing to our understanding of the nature and extent of human cognitive endowments. He suggests, in addition, that psychology can also contribute to our understanding of the…Read more
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279Social Epistemology: Essential Readings (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students in epistemology.
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462Epistemic Relativism and Reasonable DisagreementIn Richard Feldman & Ted A. Warfield (eds.), Disagreement, Oxford University Press. pp. 187-215. 2010.I begin with some familiar conceptions of epistemic relativism. One kind of epistemic relativism is descriptive pluralism. This is the simple, non-normative thesis that many different communities, cultures, social networks, etc. endorse different epistemic systems (E-systems), i.e., different sets of norms, standards, or principles for forming beliefs and other doxastic states. Communities try to guide or regulate their members’ credence-forming habits in a variety of different, i.e., incompatib…Read more
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207Epistemology: A Contemporary IntroductionOxford University Press. 2014.Epistemology has long mesmerized its practitioners with numerous puzzles. What can we know, and how can we know it? In Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction, Alvin Goldman, one of the most noted contemporary epistemologists, and Matthew McGrath, known for his work on a wide range of topics in the field, have joined forces to delve into these puzzles.
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277Consciousness, folk psychology, and cognitive scienceConsciousness and Cognition 2 (4): 364-382. 1993.This paper supports the basic integrity of the folk psychological conception of consciousness and its importance in cognitive theorizing. Section 1 critically examines some proposed definitions of consciousness, and argues that the folk- psychological notion of phenomenal consciousness is not captured by various functional-relational definitions. Section 2 rebuts the arguments of several writers who challenge the very existence of phenomenal consciousness, or the coherence or tenability of the f…Read more
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30Epistemic folkways and scientific epistemologyIn Guy Axtell (ed.), Knowledge, Belief, and Character: Readings in Virtue Epistemology, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 3-18. 2000.
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Reply to KellyIn Hilary Kornblith & Brian McLaughlin (eds.), Goldman and his Critics, Blackwell. pp. 66-68. 2016.
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32Naturalizing metaphysics with the help of cognitive scienceIn Dean W. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Oxford University Press. pp. 171-215. 2008.This chapter argues that empirical findings in cognitive science can play a significant evidential role in an optimal methodology for metaphysics. It does not propose any radical metaphysical methodology or any wholesale replacement of traditional methods. Rather, it offers a supplement to traditional methods. The chapter proposes a general template for metaphysical methodology under which cognitive scientific considerations might become routine or commonplace factors in realist metaphysics, not…Read more
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