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845Some Varieties of Epistemic Injustice: Reflections on FrickerEpisteme 7 (2): 151-163. 2010.Miranda Fricker's important study of epistemic injustice is focussed primarily on testimonial injustice and hermeneutic injustice. It explores how agents' capacities to make assertions and provide testimony can be impaired in ways that can involve forms of distinctively epistemic injustice. My paper identifies a wider range of forms of epistemic injustice that do not all involve the ability to make assertions or offer testimony. The paper considers some examples of some other ways in which injus…Read more
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237Questions, epistemology, and inquiriesGrazer Philosophische Studien 77 (1): 1-21. 2008.Questions are relevant to epistemology because they formulate cognitive goals, they are used to elicit information, they are used in Socratic reflection and knowledge sentences often have indirect question complements. The paper explores what capacities we must possess if we are to understand questions and identify and evaluate potential answers to them. The later sections explore different ways in which these matters depend upon pragmatic and other contextual considerations.
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190Affective states and epistemic immediacyMetaphilosophy 34 (1-2): 78-96. 2003.Ethics studies the evaluation of actions, agents and their mental states and characters from a distinctive viewpoint or employing a distinctive vocabulary. And epistemology examines the evaluation of actions (inquiries and assertions), agents (believers and inquirers), and their states (belief and attitudes) from a different viewpoint. Given this common concern with evaluation, we should surely expect there to be considerable similarities between the issues examined and the ideas employed in the…Read more
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167Reasons for belief, reasoning, virtuesPhilosophical Studies 130 (1): 47--70. 2006.The paper offers an explanation of what reasons for belief are, following Paul Grice in focusing on the roles of reasons in the goal-directed activity of reasoning. Reasons are particularly salient considerations that we use as indicators of the truth of beliefs and candidates for belief. Reasons are distinguished from enabling conditions by being things that we should be able to attend to in the course of our reasoning, and in assessing how well our beliefs are supported. The final section argu…Read more
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142Conscious Belief and DeliberationAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 55 (1): 75-108. 1981.
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133ScepticismRoutledge. 1990.Scepticism is a subject which has preoccupied philosophers for two thousand years. This book presents an historical perspective on scepticism by considering contrasting views, such as those of Sextus Empiricus, Descartes and Hume, on why scepticism is important. With its historical perspective and analysis of contemporary discussions, _Scepticism_ provides a broad focus on the subject, differing from other discussions of the topic in the importance it attaches to scepticism both in Greek thought…Read more
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123Cognitive virtues and epistemic evaluationsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (2). 1994.(1994). Cognitive virtues and epistemic evaluations. International Journal of Philosophical Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 211-227. doi: 10.1080/09672559408570791
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123Doubt: Affective States and the Regulation of InquiryCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 24 (sup1): 203-225. 1998.Pragmatists challenge a sharp separation of issues of theoretical and practical rationality. This can encourage a sort of anti-realism: our classifications and theories are shaped by our interests and practical concerns. However, it need not do this. A more fundamental theme is that cognition is itself an activity, the attempt to solve problems and discover truths effectively and responsibly. Evidence has to be collected, experiments have to be devised and carried out, dialogues must be engaged …Read more
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117Epistemic norms and theoretical deliberationRatio 12 (4). 1999.Some fundamental epistemic norms govern the conduct of the activity of inquiry and the progress of theoretical deliberation. We monitor our deliberations by raising questions about how they should be conducted and about how effectively they have been carried out. Such questions ‘occur’ to us: we are often passive recipients of them. The paper discusses what determines when questions should occur to us and it investigates how far these observations can be seen as threatening our freedom of mind. …Read more
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101PragmatismStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2019.An overview of a philosophical movement originating in the United States of America in the 19th century.
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101Short on Peirce's early theory of signsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (4). 2007.: T.L. Short's book argues that Peirce's early theory of signs was flawed, and that the development of his mature theories required a new start and the rejection of some fundamental doctrines from the earlier view. While agreeing that Peirce's view of signs changed and agreeing on the new developments that were of most significance, I express some doubts about Short's diagnosis of why such changes were required. I argue that the changes were required, not by internal inconsistencies in the earli…Read more
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98Regulating InquiryThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 149-157. 2000.Appeal to the idea of an epistemic virtue promises insight into our practices of epistemic evaluation through employing a distinctive view of the ways in which we formulate and respond to reasons. Traits of ‘epistemic character’ guide our reasoning and reflection, and can be responsible for various forms of irrationality. One component of such a view is that emotions, sentiments and other affective states are far more central to questions of epistemic rationality than is commonly supposed. This …Read more
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90Minds, Machines And Evolution (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1984.This is a volume of original essays written by philosophers and scientists and dealing with philosophical questions arising from work in evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence. In recent years both of these areas have been the focus for attempts to provide a scientific, model of a wide range of human capacities - most prominently perhaps in sociobiology and cognitive psychology. The book therefore examines a number of issues related to the search for a 'naturalistic' or scientific acco…Read more
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86The inaugural address: Fallibilism and the aim of inquiryAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 81 (1). 2007.
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8313 Emotions and epistemic evaluationsIn Peter Carruthers, Stephen P. Stich & Michael Siegal (eds.), The Cognitive Basis of Science, Cambridge University Press. pp. 251. 2002.
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80Belief and freedom of mindPhilosophical Explorations 12 (2). 2009.There are concepts of freedom of mind and freedom of belief which do not depend on the freedom of agency. After discussing some impediments to such freedom of mind, the paper explores some arguments of Dennett, Michael Smith and Philip Pettit, and Josefa Toribio. Borrowing ideas from Schiller, the paper concludes that such freedom has an emotional or aesthetic dimension
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77PeirceRoutledge. 1985.This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
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76Truth, rationality, and pragmatism: themes from Peirce (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.Christopher Hookway presents a series of studies of themes from the work of the great American philosopher and pragmatist, Charles S. Peirce (1839-1913). These themes center on the question of how we are to investigate the world rationally. Hookway shows how Peirce's ideas about this continue to play an important role in contemporary philosophy.
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76Quine: Language, Experience, and RealityStanford University Press. 1988.Introduction Quine was born in. He studied as a graduate student at Harvard, and apart from short visits to Oxford, Paris and other centres of learning, ...
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75Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism * By ROBERT B. BRANDOMAnalysis 69 (3): 568-570. 2009.Robert Brandom's latest book, the product of his John Locke lectures in Oxford in 2006, is a return to the philosophy of language and is easily read as a continuation and development of the views defended in Making it Explicit . The text of the lectures is presented much as they were delivered, but it contains an ‘Afterword’ of more than 30 pages which responds to questions raised when he gave the lectures, and also when they were subsequently delivered in Prague the following year. The publishe…Read more
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70The principle of pragmatism: Peirce's formulations and examplesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (1). 2004.
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69Naturalized epistemology and epistemic evaluationInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 37 (4). 1994.The paper explores Quine's ?naturalized epistemology?, investigating whether its adoption would prevent the description or vindication of normative standards standardly employed in regulating beliefs and inquiries. Quine's defence of naturalized epistemology rejects traditional epistemological questions rather than using psychology to answer them. Although one could persuade those sensitive to the force of traditional epistemological problems only by employing the kind of argument whose philosop…Read more
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65Regulating InquiryThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 5 149-157. 2000.Appeal to the idea of an epistemic virtue promises insight into our practices of epistemic evaluation through employing a distinctive view of the ways in which we formulate and respond to reasons. Traits of ‘epistemic character’ guide our reasoning and reflection, and can be responsible for various forms of irrationality. One component of such a view is that emotions, sentiments and other affective states are far more central to questions of epistemic rationality than is commonly supposed. This …Read more
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61Mimicking Foundationalism: on Sentiment and Self‐controlEuropean Journal of Philosophy 1 (2): 156-174. 1993.
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |