University of California, Berkeley
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2003
Portland, Oregon, United States of America
  • Normativity, Naturalism, and Scepticism
    Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley. 2003.
    In this project, I develop a characterization of the normative character of our primary mental and epistemic concepts, identify its consequences for the prospects of naturalism in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, and explore its ramifications for the problem of the external world. ;In Part I of this study, I argue that there are conceptual truths linking our concepts of the attitudes and our concept of epistemic justification to particular deontic and reason-involving concepts, like the …Read more