• Expertise: philosophical perspectives (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
  • How to be a neo-Moorean
    In Sanford Goldberg (ed.), Internalism and externalism in semantics and epistemology, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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    Socially Extended Epistemology (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
  • Extended ‎Epistemology (edited book)
    with Jesper Kallestrup‎, Orestis Palermos, and J. Adam Carter‎
    Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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    Hinge commitments and trust
    Synthese 202 (5): 1-20. 2023.
    According to the innovative account of the structure of rational evaluation offered by Wittgenstein in his final notebooks, published as On Certainty, our rational practices necessarily presuppose arational hinge commitments. These are everyday, apparently mundane, commitments that we are optimally certain of, but which in virtue of the ‘hinge’ role that they play in our rational practices cannot themselves enjoy rational support. Granted that there are such hinge commitments, what is the nature…Read more
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    Understanding Deep Disagreement
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 31 (3): 301-317. 2023.
    The axiological account of deep disagreements is described and defended. This proposal understands this notion in terms of the existential importance of the topic of disagreement. It is argued that this account provides a straightforward explanation for the main features of deep disagreements. This proposal is then compared to the contemporary popular view that deep disagreements are essentially hinge disagreements – i.e. disagreements concerning clashes of one’s hinge commitments, in the sense …Read more
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    Social Epistemology (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2008.
    Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in the social dimension of the subject. This volume presents new work by leading philosophers on a wide range of topics in social epistemology, such as the nature of testimony, the epistemology of disagreement, and the social genealogy of the concept of knowledge.
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    Interview
    In Vincent F. Hendricks & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Epistemology: 5 Questions, . 2008.
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    Williamson on Knowledge (edited book)
    Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009.
    Eighteen leading philosophers offer critical assessments of Timothy Williamson's ground-breaking work on knowledge and its impact on philosophy today. They discuss epistemological issues concerning evidence, defeasibility, scepticism, testimony, assertion, and perception, and debate Williamson's central claim that knowledge is a mental state.
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    Epistemic value (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2009.
    Recent epistemology has reflected a growing interest in issues about the value of knowledge and the values informing epistemic appraisal. Is knowledge more valuable that merely true belief or even justified true belief? Is truth the central value informing epistemic appraisal or do other values enter the picture? Epistemic Value is a collection of previously unpublished articles on such issues by leading philosophers in the field. It will stimulate discussion of the nature of knowledge and of di…Read more
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    Extended knowledge and autonomous belief
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.
    Adam Carter has recently presented a novel puzzle about extended knowledge – i.e. knowledge that results from extended cognitive processes. He argues that allowing for this kind of knowledge on the face of it entails that there could be instances of knowledge that are simply ‘engineered’ into the subject. The problem is that such engineered knowledge does not look genuine given that it results from processes that bypass the cognitive agency of the subject. Carter’s solution is to argue that we n…Read more
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    Davidson and Radical Skepticism
    In Ernie Lepore & Kirk Ludwig (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Donald Davidson, Wiley. 2013.
    Donald Davidson famously argued, contra radical skepticism, that belief is in its nature veridical. In assessing whether Davidson was successful in this regard, it is first necessary to establish the exact philosophical basis Davidson was adducing for this claim, which is far from clear. In particular, a lot of the critical focus on Davidson's approach to radical skepticism has tended to focus on his appeal to an omniscient interpreter, and yet a closer evaluation of Davidson's antiskepticism re…Read more
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    This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract From the Epistemology of Disagreement to Epistemic Relativism The Irrelevance of Epistemic Externalism Wittgensteinian Epistemology and Epistemic Relativism Williams's Wittgensteinian Contextualism Wittgensteinian Epistemology Reconsidered Concluding Remarks References.
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    The Modal Account of Luck
    In Duncan Pritchard & Lee John Whittington (eds.), The Philosophy of Luck, Wiley-blackwell. 2015.
    This essay offers a rearticulation and defence of the modal account of luck that the author developed in earlier work (e.g., Pritchard ). In particular, the proposal is situated within a certain methodology, a component of which is paying due attention to the cognitive science literature on luck (and risk) ascriptions. It is shown that with the modal account of luck properly articulated it can adequately deal with some of the problems that have recently been offered against it, and that the view…Read more
  • Introductory Note
    with Lee John Whittington
    In Duncan Pritchard & Lee John Whittington (eds.), The Philosophy of Luck, Wiley-blackwell. 2015.
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    Veritism and Epistemic Value
    In Brian P. McLaughlin & Hilary Kornblith (eds.), Goldman and His Critics, Wiley. 2016.
    One of Alvin Goldman's most distinctive contributions to epistemology, and there are many, concerns his development of a thorough‐going reliabilism in the theory of knowledge. This chapter explores reasons for being sceptical about Goldman's treatment of the swamping problem. It argues that when the swamping problem is properly understood, then there is a very straightforward response available to Goldman. The chapter sets out the swamping problem and argues that it does not pose a challenge whi…Read more
  • Neuromedia and the Epistemology of Education
    In Michel Croce & Maria Silvia Vaccarezza (eds.), Connecting Virtues, Wiley. 2018.
    This paper explores the implications of a technological revolution that many in the industry think is likely soon to come to pass: neuromedia. In particular, the paper is interested in how this will constitute an especially persuasive kind of extended cognition, and thereby will facilitate extended epistemic states. This will in turn have ramifications for how we understand the epistemic goals of education. The paper argues that the challenges posed by neuromedia remind us that the overarching e…Read more
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    Skepticism
    In Graham Oppy (ed.), A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, Wiley. 2019.
    Our focus will be some prominent ways in which scholars have tried to motivate skepticism about the rationality of religious belief and in the process make a case for atheism. This will lead us in turn to consider how the putative flaws in these skeptical arguments might mitigate against the philosophical case for atheism. Finally, we will consider how fideistic and quasi‐fideistic approaches to the epistemology of religious belief might be able to embody a certain kind of skepticism while nonet…Read more
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    Wittgenstein on Skepticism
    In Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.
    The general topic of skepticism crops up in Wittgenstein's work, from his remarks on solipsism in the Tractactus, to the potentially skepticism‐inducing claims about rule‐following in Philosophical Investigations. Wittgenstein's radical new conception of the structure of rational evaluation blocks even this route to radical skepticism, since it excludes the possibility that the radical skeptic's wholesale rational evaluations could constitute a purified version of our everyday local rational eva…Read more
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    A certain conception of the relevance of virtue epistemology to the philosophy of education is set out. On this conception, while the epistemic goal of education might initially be promoting the pupil's cognitive success, it should ultimately move on to the development of the pupil's cognitive agency. A continuum of cognitive agency is described, on which it is ultimately cognitive achievement, and thus understanding, which is the epistemic goal of education. This is contrasted with a view on wh…Read more
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    Scepticism and Commonsense
    Analysis 82 (4): 716-725. 2022.
    Bergmann (2021) has written a sophisticated monograph on radical scepticism that offers a distinctive kind of commonsense response to this difficulty. My critic.
  • Reforming Reformed Epistemology
    In René Woudenberg, Sabine Roeser & Ron Rood (eds.), Basic Belief and Basic Knowledge: Papers in Epistemology, De Gruyter. pp. 177-210. 2005.
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    Greco on Scepticism – A Critical Discussion
    with Cornelis Van Putten
    Erkenntnis 62 (2): 277-284. 2005.
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    ABSTRACT This book symposium features three critical pieces dealing with Duncan Pritchard's book, 'Epistemic Angst'; the symposium also contains Pritchard's replies to his critics.
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    McDowell and the new evil genius
    with Ram Neta
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74 (2). 2007.
    (NEG) is widely accepted both by internalist and by externalists. In fact, there have been very few opponents of (NEG). Timothy Williamson (e.g., 2000) rejects (NEG), for reasons that have by now received a great deal of scrutiny.2 John McDowell also rejects (NEG), but his reasons have not received the scrutiny they deserve. This is in large part because those reasons have not been well understood. We believe that McDowell’s challenge to (NEG) is important, worthy of fair assessment, and maybe e…Read more
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    Moral and Epistemic Virtues
    Metaphilosophy 34 (1-2): 1-11. 2003.
    This volume brings together papers by some of the leading figures working on virtue-theoretic accounts in both ethics and epistemology. A collection of cutting edge articles by leading figures in the field of virtue theory including Guy Axtell, Julia Driver, Antony Duff and Miranda Fricker. The first book to combine papers on both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. Deals with key topics in recent epistemological and ethical debate
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    Editor's Introduction
    Metaphilosophy 34 (3): 330-330. 2003.