• Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2015.
    This is the sixth volume of the Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion series. As with earlier volumes, these chapters follow the tradition of providing a non-sectarian and non-partisan snapshot of the subdiscipline of philosophy of religion. This subdiscipline has become an increasingly important one within philosophy over the last century, and especially over the past half century, having emerged as an identifiable subfield within this time frame along with other emerging subfields such as t…Read more
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    Pointless Truth
    In Peter A. French & Howard K. Wettstein (eds.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Blackwell. 2008.
    This chapter contains sections titled: The Unqualified Value of Knowledge and Understanding Bad Truth and Pointless Truth Basic Research and Pointless Truth Intellectualist Positions Conclusion.
  • Coherentism
    In Andrew Cullison (ed.), The Continuum Companion to Epistemology, Continuum. 2012.
  • Epistemic normativity
    In Clayton Littlejohn & John Turri (eds.), Epistemic Norms: New Essays on Action, Belief, and Assertion, Oxford University Press. 2013.
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    Depicting Deity: A Metatheological Approach
    Oxford University Press. 2021.
    A theology aims to explain the nature of God. A metatheology investigates more fundamental issues concerning how to structure such an intellectual endeavor. This book examines where it is best to start the project of theology in the hope of offering a defensible metatheory from which a complete and elegant theology can be developed.
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    Pittard on Religious Disagreement
    International Journal for the Study of Skepticism 13 (4): 311-324. 2022.
    This paper focuses on Pittard’s path to rationalism. It begins from the master argument Pittard identifies against rational disagreement among epistemic peers. It raises an issue for Pittard’s endorsement of the first premise of that argument, but focuses primarily on the third premise. It suggests a way of denying the third premise beyond the possibilities Pittard identifies, and then questions the strategy Pittard uses for ruling out competitors to his rationalism for defending the possibility…Read more
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    How to Be an Inclusivist
    In Matthew A. Benton & Jonathan L. Kvanvig (eds.), Religious Disagreement and Pluralism, Oxford University Press. pp. 217-237. 2021.
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    Skill, Luck, and Epistemic Probability
    Acta Analytica 37 (1): 25-31. 2021.
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    Epistemic Virtue and Doxastic Responsibility (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (4): 970-973. 1996.
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    Can Skeptics Earn Their Keep?
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 102 (3): 595-607. 2020.
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
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    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 3 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2011.
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.
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    Knowability Paradox
    Oxford University Press UK. 2006.
    The paradox of knowability, derived from a proof by Frederic Fitch in 1963, is one of the deepest paradoxes concerning the nature of truth. Jonathan Kvanvig argues that the depth of the paradox has not been adequately appreciated. It has long been known that the paradox threatens antirealist conceptions of truth according to which truth is epistemic. If truth is epistemic, what better way to express that idea than to maintain that all truths are knowable? In the face of the paradox, however, suc…Read more
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    Religious Disagreement and Pluralism (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2021.
    Epistemological questions about the significance of disagreement have advanced in concert with broader developments in social epistemology concerning testimony, the nature of expertise and epistemic authority, the role of institutions, group belief, and epistemic injustice (among others). During this period, related issues in the epistemology of religion have reemerged as worthy of new consideration, and available to be situated with new conceptual tools. This volume explores many of the issues …Read more
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    On Denying a Presupposition of Sellars’ Problem:A Defense of Propositionalism
    Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 50 (4). 2005.
    Há uma profunda divisão entre duas concepções fundamentais na epistemologia ao longo dos últimos trinta a quarenta anos. Alguns rotulam essa divisão como sendo aquela entre internalistas e externalistas, e essa caracterização pode, mesmo, ser exata, conforme alguma explicação dessa distinção. Eu abordarei a divisão por um ângulo diferente, dado que uma abordagem melhor é conceber a divisão como surgindo de uma compreensão do Problema de Sellars. O meu interesse é em posturas que recusam uma pres…Read more
  • Theoretical Unity in Epistemology
    In Cherie Braden, Rodrigo Borges & Branden Fitelson (eds.), Themes From Klein, Springer Verlag. 2019.
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    Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge, by Jessica Brown
    Mind 128 (512): 1395-1402. 2019.
    Fallibilism: Evidence and Knowledge, by BrownJessica. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 197.
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    Faith and Humility
    Oxford University Press. 2018.
    This book is devoted to articulating the connections between the nature and value of faith and humility. The goal is to understand these two virtues in a way that does not discriminate between religious and secular. Jon Kvanvig claims that each provides a necessary, compensating balance to the potential downside of the other.
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    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 5 (edited book)
    with Jonathan Kvanvig
    Oxford University Press. 2014.
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.
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    The Problem of Hell
    Oxford University Press USA. 1993.
    This work develops an understanding of hell that is common to a broad variety of religious perspectives, and argues that the usual understandings of hell are incapable of solving the problem of hell. Kvanvig develops a philosophical account of hell which does not depend on a retributive model and argues that it is adequate on both philosophical and theological grounds.
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    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 3: Volume 3 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 2011.
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.
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    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion: Volume 2 (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 2009.
    Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.
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    The Knowability Paradox
    Oxford University Press UK. 2006.
    The paradox of knowability poses real difficulities to our understanding of truth. It does so by claiming that if we assume a truth is knowable, we can demonstrate that it is known. This demonstration threatens our understanding of truth in two quite different ways, only one of which has been recognized to this point in the literature on the paradox. Jonathan Kvanvig first unearths the ways in which the paradox is threatening, and then delineates an approach to the paradox that solves both of th…Read more
  • Subjectivity in Justification
    Dissertation, University of Notre Dame. 1982.
    The standard view concerning types of theories of justification is that there are two types of theories: foundational and coherence theories. Foundationalism is generally taken to be what I call Minimal Foundationalism, which is a weaker form of foundationalism than Classical Foundationalism. I argue that this taxonomical scheme is inadequate since it fails to separate theories that are intuitively different, and it places some theories that are avowedly of one sort in the other type of theory. …Read more
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    Review of Jonathan L. Kvanvig: The Problem of Hell (review)
    Ethics 105 (4): 961-963. 1995.
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    Sosa's virtue epistemology
    Critica 42 (125): 47-62. 2010.
    Ernest Sosa's latest epistemology remains a version of virtue epistemology, and I argue here that it faces two central problems, pressing a point I have made elsewhere, that virtue epistemology does not present a complete answer to the problem of the value of knowledge. I will press this point regarding the nature of knowledge through variations on two standard Gettier examples here. The first is the Fake Barn case and the second is the Tom Grabit case. I will argue that Sosa's latest virtue epi…Read more