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714Responsibility Beyond Belief: The Epistemic Condition on Moral ResponsibilityDissertation, . 2018.In this dissertation, I argue for a new conception of the epistemic condition on moral responsibility.
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31The Utilibot Project: An Autonomous Mobile Robot Based on UtilitarianismIn Anderson Michael, Anderson Susan & Armen Chris (eds.), AAAI Fall Symposium, . 2005.As autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) begin living in the home, performing service tasks and assisting with daily activities, their actions will have profound ethical implications. Consequently, AMRs need to be outfitted with the ability to act morally with regard to human life and safety. Yet, in the area of robotics where morality is a relevant field of endeavor (i.e. human-robot interaction) the sub-discipline of morality does not exist. In response, the Utilibot project seeks to provide a point…Read more
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98A dilemma for the knowledge despite falsehood strategyEpisteme 15 (2): 166-182. 2018.One strategy for dealing with apparent cases of knowledge from falsehood is to deny that the knowledge actually is from a falsehood. Those endorsing such a move have suggested that cases of knowledge from falsehood are instead cases of knowledge despite falsehood. We here provide a dilemma for those wanting to reject the possibility of knowledge from falsehood. The dilemma is explained in part by examining recent attempts to deny that knowledge can be inferentially derived from falsehood.
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169Responsibilist EvidentialismPhilosophical Studies 172 (11): 2999-3016. 2015.When is a person justified in believing a proposition? In this paper, I defend a view according to which a person is justified in believing a proposition just in case the person’s evidence sufficiently supports the proposition and the person responsibly acquired and sustained the evidence that supports the proposition. This view overcomes a deficiency in a prominent theory of epistemic justification. As championed by Earl Conee and Richard Feldman, Evidentialism is a theory subject to counterexa…Read more
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University of California, Santa BarbaraLecturer (Part-time)
Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |