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Should CSR Give Atheists Epistemic Assurance? On Beer-Goggles, BFFs, and Skepticism Regarding Religious BeliefsThe Monist 96 (3): 311-324. 2013.Recent work in cognitive science of religion (CSR) is beginning to converge on a very interesting thesis—that, given the ordinary features of human minds operating in typical human environments, we are naturally disposed to believe in the existence of gods, among other religious ideas (e.g., seeAtran [2002], Barrett [2004; 2012], Bering [2011], Boyer [2001], Guthrie [1993], McCauley [2011], Pyysiäinen [2004; 2009]). In this paper, we explore whether such a discovery ultimately helps or hurts the…Read more
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Virtue Epistemology and the Analysis of KnowledgeBloomsbury Academic. 2023.This book centers on two trends in contemporary epistemology: (i) the dissatisfaction with the reductive analysis of knowledge and (ii) the popularity of virtue-theoretic epistemologies. The goal is to endorse non-reductive virtue epistemology. Given that prominent renditions of virtue epistemology assume the reductive model, however, such a move is not straightforward—work needs to be done to elucidate what is wrong with the reductive model, in general, and why reductive accounts of virtue epis…Read more
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Is Intellectual Humility Compatible with Religious Dogmatism?Journal of Psychology and Theology 46 (4): 226-232. 2018.
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Two Hurdles for Interdisciplinary ResearchJournal of Psychology and Christianity. forthcoming.
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Intellectual Humility: An Introduction to the Philosophy and ScienceBloomsbury Academic. 2017.Two intellectual vices seem to always tempt us: arrogance and diffidence. Regarding the former, the world is permeated by dogmatism and table-thumping close-mindedness. From politics, to religion, to simple matters of taste, zealots and ideologues all too often define our disagreements, often making debate and dialogue completely intractable. But to the other extreme, given a world with so much pluralism and heated disagreement, intellectual apathy and a prevailing agnosticism can be simply all …Read more
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The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck (edited book)Routledge. 2019.Luck permeates our lives, and this raises a number of pressing questions: What is luck? When we attribute luck to people, circumstances, or events, what are we attributing? Do we have any obligations to mitigate the harms done to people who are less fortunate? And to what extent is deserving praise or blame a ected by good or bad luck? Although acquiring a true belief by an uneducated guess involves a kind of luck that precludes knowledge, does all luck undermine knowledge? And how accurate are …Read more
Hillsdale, Michigan, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Epistemology of Religion |
PhilPapers Editorships
Virtue Epistemology |
The Gettier Problem |
Divine Hiddenness |
Religious Pluralism |