Brett Coppenger

Tuskegee University
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    Better Call Saul and Philosophy is an anthology, a collection of essays exploring the philosophical themes present in the hit television show Better Call Saul. Premiering in the Spring of 2015, Better Call Saul serves as a prequel to the much beloved and critically acclaimed television show Breaking Bad in a which mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher, Walter White - through a series of poor, albeit strained decisions - slowly but steadily becomes a monstrous drug kingpin. In Better Call S…Read more
  • Self-Knowledge and Skepticism
    In James South & Kimberly Engels (eds.), Westworld and Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2018.
  • How to Build a Conspiracy Theory
    In Richard Greene & Rachel Robison-Greene (eds.), Conspiracy Theories: Philosophers Connect the Dots, . 2020.
  • Is Justified True Bluth Belief Knowledge?
    with Kristopher G. Phillips
    In Kristopher G. Phillips & J. Jeremy Wisnewski (eds.), Arrested Development and Philosophy. pp. 162-171. 2012.
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    Intellectual Assurance: Essays on Traditional Epistemic Internalism (edited book)
    with Michael Bergmann
    Oxford University Press. 2016.
    Ordinarily, people take themselves to know a lot. I know where I was born, I know that I have two hands, I know that two plus two equals four, and I also think I know a lot of other stuff too. However, the project of trying to provide a philosophically satisfying account of knowledge, one that holds up against skeptical challenges, has proven surprisingly difficult. Either one aims for an account of justification (and knowledge) that is epistemologically demanding, in an effort to offer an accou…Read more
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    Achieving epistemic descent
    Dissertation, University of Iowa. 2012.
    Traditional accounts of justification can be characterized as trying to analyze justification in such a way that having a justified belief brings with it assurance of truth. The internalist offers a demanding requirement on justification: one's having a justified belief requires that one see what the belief has going for it. Externalists worry that the internalist's narrow conception of justification will lead to unacceptably radical and implausible skepticism. According to the externalist, one …Read more