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33Epistemic Agency and the Value of Knowledge and BeliefFeminist 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
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8Listening to Musical PerformersContemporary 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
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Knowledge and a Priori JustificationDissertation, 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
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47Look What They've Done to My Song: "Historical Authenticity" and the Aesthetics of Musical PerformanceMidwest Studies in Philosophy 16 (1): 394-420. 1991.
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29Playing Bach His Way: Historical Authenticity, Personal Authenticity, and the Performance of Classical MusicThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 32 (4): 79. 1998.
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16Eternal Verities: Timeless Truth, Ahistorical Standards, and the One True StoryAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 34 (2). 1997.
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134Three kinds of recording and the metaphysics of musicBritish Journal of Aesthetics 39 (1): 24-39. 1999.
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63From relative confirmation to real confirmationPhilosophy 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
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190Glymour on confirmationPhilosophy 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
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Presidential Address to the 46th Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association: "A Little Philosophy is a Dangerous Thing"Florida Philosophical Review 1 (1): 6-15. 2001.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
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33Philosophy: Just like science only differentPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 45 (4): 537-552. 1985.