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Is every epistemology a virtue epistemology?In Mark Alfano & Abrol Fairweather (eds.), Epistemic Situationism, Oxford University Press. 2017.
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19Richard Vagnino and Lauren Olin: Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy, Steven Gimbel. Routledge, 2017. pp. 208 (review)The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 1 (1): 285-287. 2020.Despite sustained philosophical attention, no theory of humor claims general acceptance. Drawing on the resources provided by intentional systems theory, this article first outlines an approach to investigating humor based on the idea of a comic stance, then sketches the Dismissal Theory of Humor that has resulted from pursuing that approach. According to the DTH, humor manifests in cases where the future-directed significance of anticipatory failures is dismissed. Mirth, on this view, is the re…Read more
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11Ted CohenThe Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 1 (1): 257-259. 2020.Despite sustained philosophical attention, no theory of humor claims general acceptance. Drawing on the resources provided by intentional systems theory, this article first outlines an approach to investigating humor based on the idea of a comic stance, then sketches the Dismissal Theory of Humor that has resulted from pursuing that approach. According to the DTH, humor manifests in cases where the future-directed significance of anticipatory failures is dismissed. Mirth, on this view, is the re…Read more
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277Vicious minds: Virtue epistemology, cognition, and skepticismPhilosophical Studies 168 (3): 665-692. 2014.While there is now considerable anxiety about whether the psychological theory presupposed by virtue ethics is empirically sustainable, analogous issues have received little attention in the virtue epistemology literature. This paper argues that virtue epistemology encounters challenges reminiscent of those recently encountered by virtue ethics: just as seemingly trivial variation in context provokes unsettling variation in patterns of moral behavior, trivial variation in context elicits unsettl…Read more
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118Questions for a Theory of HumorPhilosophy Compass 11 (6): 338-350. 2016.Finding things funny is a pervasive aspect of human mental and social life, but humor has been neglected in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Recently, however, there has been a swell of interest in the topic. This essay critically introduces and evaluates contemporary developments in the field, and generates an associated list of questions that a successful theory of humor should be able to answer.
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116Burge on perception and sensationSynthese 193 (5): 1479-1508. 2016.In Origins of Objectivity Burge advances a theory of perception according to which perceptions are, themselves, objective representations. The possession of veridicality conditions by perceptual states—roughly, non-propositional analogues of truth-conditions—is central to Burge’s account of how perceptual states differ, empirically and metaphysically, from sensory states. Despite an impressive examination of the relevant empirical literatures, I argue here that Burge has not succeeded in securin…Read more
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71From Personality to Virtue: Essays on the Philosophy of Character, edited by Alberto Masala and Jonathan WebberJournal of Moral Philosophy 16 (2): 255-258. 2019.
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