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    Epistemic Agency and the Value of Knowledge and Belief
    Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 8 (1). 2022.
    “Credit-worthiness” accounts of the value of knowledge focus on the exercise of agency as the source of value in question. This focus is shared by an approach suggested by Sally Haslanger to the value of belief. The standard examples and counterexamples from the “value of knowledge” literature treat the relevant sort of agency in fundamentally individualistic terms. But recent work on relational autonomy recommends that we think of agency as fundamentally socially embedded. This reorientation no…Read more
  •  5
    Socio-Musical Performing Artistry
    Contemporary Aesthetics 15 (1). 2017.
  •  8
    Listening to Musical Performers
    Contemporary Aesthetics 13. 2015.
    In the philosophy of music and in musicology, apart from ethnomusicology, there is a long tradition of focus on musical compositions as objects of inquiry. But in both disciplines, a body of recent work focuses on the place of performance in the making of music. Most of this work, however, still takes for granted that compositions, at least in Western art music, are the primary objects of aesthetic attention. In this paper I focus on aesthetic attention to the performing activity itself. I begin…Read more
  • Knowledge and a Priori Justification
    Dissertation, Princeton University. 1981.
    I begin my investigation of certain aspects of knowledge by arguing that an analysis may legitimately introduce undefined technical terms if the use of these terms can be satisfactorily explained in some other way than by explicit definition, and the analysis provides fruitful direction to further investigation of the analysandum. Two analyses of 'S knows that p' are proposed. The first introduces the expression 'defeated justification'. The second introduces the technical expression: 'justified…Read more
  •  17
    Performing compositions
    British Journal of Aesthetics 37 (4): 323-335. 1997.
  •  50
    From relative confirmation to real confirmation
    Philosophy of Science 55 (2): 265-271. 1988.
    Recent work on the logical theory of confirmation has centered on accounts of the confirmation of hypotheses relative to auxiliary assumptions or background theory. Whether such relative confirmation actually increases the credibility of the (relatively) confirmed hypothesis will depend in various ways on the epistemic status of the auxiliaries involved. Most obviously, if the auxiliaries are not themselves credible, confirmation relative to them will not increase the credibility of the hypothes…Read more
  •  36
    Temporal neutrality and past pains
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 20 (4): 423-431. 1982.
  •  55
    Oackham on prophecy
    with C. Normore
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 13 (3). 1982.
  •  57
    Artistry in classical musical performance
    British Journal of Aesthetics 40 (3): 317-325. 2000.
  •  6
    Performing Compositions
    British Journal of Aesthetics 37 (4): 323-335. 1997.
  •  185
    Glymour on confirmation
    Philosophy of Science 48 (2): 292-307. 1981.
    Glymour has developed an account of the confirmation of scientific hypotheses which he advocates as an alternative to the hypothetico-deductive and Bayesian accounts. This account is subject to a counter-example which may be accomodated by a slight modification. So modified it describes an important dimension of confirmation. If the modification of Glymour's account is slightly extended, both the resulting account and the hypothetico-deductive account may be seen as special cases of a Bayesian t…Read more
  •  12
    Fearing for Our Mental Lives
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 12 (1): 335-360. 1988.
  •  8
    Temporal Neutrality and Past Pains
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 20 (4): 423-431. 1982.
  • Mostly in blank verse, I consider the question "What value can a student receive from a single course in philosophy?" More specifically, in line with my own teaching duties, I focus on the value to students of a single course in, say, epistemology, metaphysics, or philosophy of science or mind. I consider and reject answers based on the examples of introductory instruction in science or in art, finally concluding that even just a bit of this sort of philosophy can communicate some of the delight…Read more
  •  22
    Philosophy: Just like science only different
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (4): 537-552. 1985.
  •  30
    What's an Epistemologist to Do?
    American Philosophical Quarterly 31 (4). 1994.
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    Three kinds of recording and the metaphysics of music
    British Journal of Aesthetics 39 (1): 24-39. 1999.
  •  19
    Language-Learning and a Priori Knowledge
    American Philosophical Quarterly 23 (4). 1986.