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Zetetic EpistemologyIn Baron Reed & A. K. Flowerree (eds.), Towards an Expansive Epistemology: Norms, Action, and the Social Sphere, Routledge. forthcoming.
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The aim of inquiry?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (2): 506-523. 2024.
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Rational Agnosticism and Degrees of BeliefOxford Studies in Epistemology 4 57. 2013.There has been much discussion about whether traditional epistemology's doxastic attitudes are reducible to degrees of belief. In this paper I argue that what I call the Straightforward Reduction - the reduction of all three of believing p, disbelieving p, and suspending judgment about p, not-p to precise degrees of belief for p and not-p that ought to obey the standard axioms of the probability calculus - cannot succeed. By focusing on suspension of judgment (agnosticism) rather than belief,…Read more
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Why Suspend Judging?Noûs 51 (2): 302-326. 2017.
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The Epistemic and the ZeteticPhilosophical Review 129 (4): 501-536. 2020.Call the norms of inquiry zetetic norms. How are zetetic norms related to epistemic norms? At first glance, they seem quite closely connected. Aren't epistemic norms norms that bind inquirers qua inquirers? And isn't epistemology the place to look for a normative theory of inquiry? While much of this thought seems right, this paper argues that the relationship between the epistemic and the zetetic is not as harmonious as one might have thought and liked. In particular, this paper argues that som…Read more
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Suspended judgmentPhilosophical Studies 162 (2): 165-181. 2013.Abstract In this paper I undertake an in-depth examination of an oft mentioned but rarely expounded upon state: suspended judgment. While traditional epistemology is sometimes characterized as presenting a “yes or no” picture of its central attitudes, in fact many of these epistemologists want to say that there is a third option: subjects can also suspend judgment. Discussions of suspension are mostly brief and have been less than clear on a number of issues, in particular whether this third o…Read more
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Question‐directed attitudesPhilosophical Perspectives 27 (1): 145-174. 2013.
University of Oxford
DPhil, 2011
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Normativity |
Value Theory |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Language |