I’ve recently completed a draft of a paper callled “Two New Versions of Skeptical Theism” for an edited volume. This will definitely be going through a round of revisions, and so I’m posting a copy here in case anyone is interested in reading it and giving me comments or feedback. If you have anything, I’d… Continue Reading
Amanda was wrong by the Graysons. She switched identity with someone named Emily, so she could come back and plot revenge against the wealthy Graysons. Amanda now goes by the name Emily, and she has become independently wealthy. Amanda bought the beach house next to the Graysons to plot revenge. **SPOILER ALERT** After several months… Continue Reading
Woot! I just heard from Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. They just accepted a paper I co-authored with Neil Feit titled “When Does Falsehood Preclude Knowledge”. Here’s the abstract. I’ll post a penultimate version of the paper when I can. ABSTRACT Falsehood can preclude knowledge in many ways. A false proposition cannot be known. A false ground… Continue Reading
Some of you may already be aware of Logos and Episteme – a new, open-access epistemology journal. I think this is exciting, and I really hope it sticks. So far things are looking great. They have an impressive advisory board including Ernest Sosa, Alvin Goldman, Susan Haack, Duncan Prichard, and Jonathan Kvanvig. You can check… Continue Reading
I was invited to write a critical review of Jennifer Lackey’s book Learning from Words. I just submitted a draft to Philosophical Books for review, but I still welcome comments/feedback. In short, despite the fact that I disagree with Lackey on a number of issues, I think this book is excellent. Here’s a link to… Continue Reading
Here’s the line-up for that Companion to Epistemology I’ve been working on. 1. Some Puzzles About Methodology in Epistemology (Andrew Cullison) 2. What is Knowledge? (Earl Conee) 3. Foundationalism (Daniel Howard-Snyder) 4. Coherentism (Jonathan Kvanvig) 5. Infinitism (Peter Klein) 6. Evidentialism (Richard Feldman) 7. Reliabilism (Sandford Goldberg) 8. Proper Functionalism (Alvin Plantinga and Kenneth Boyce)… Continue Reading
It’s been awhile since my last blog entry. We hit the end of the semester crunch, and then I went out of town. I’m now back doing work, and posts will resume. Two cool things happened in that break. I had two papers accepted for publication! The first is a paper on the problem of… Continue Reading
I’m giving a talk at Northwestern today called “Descriptivism Meets Gettier” as part of their Epistemology Brown Bag Lecture Series. I’ll post a draft of the paper later (I’ll likely want to make changes after the talk), but here’s the basic idea. I think Descriptivism (about semantic content) is committed to certain speakers having knowledge… Continue Reading
Part of Williamson’s case against the possibility of analyzing knowledge involves rejecting three candidate arguments for the thesis that belief is conceptually prior to knowledge. These all come up in the introduction of Knowledge and Its Limits.1 Here is my best attempt to extract these arguments. The labels are my own. The Argument from Non-reflexive… Continue Reading