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Abstracts for the some of the papers below are here
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on subscriber sitesfinal, published versions |
| Horrific Suffering, Divine Hiddenness, and Hell: The Place of Freedom in a World Governed by God . draft of 16 Oct. 2019 of sects. 1-21 |
work in progress | web page version with link at top to pdf . | |
| Delusions of Knowledge concerning God’s Existence: A Skeptical Look at Religious Experience | in Benton, Hawthorne, Rabinowitz, eds., Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology (Oxford UP, 2018), pp. 288-301. | web page, pdf . | |
| Replies to commentators, from a symposium on The Appearance of Ignorance | forthcoming, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism | pdf . | |
| Why Take a Stance on God? (interview of me by Gary Gutting; placed here, out of chronological order, to pair it with the above paper; that one was aimed primarily at presumed knowledge of God’s existence; this one, at presumed knowledge of God’s non-existence) |
in The Stone, the New York Times philosophy blog, 18 September 2014; reprinted with slight revisions as “Religion and Knowledge,” in Gary Gutting, Talking God: Philosophers on Belief (New York: W.W. Norton, 2017), pp. 172-186. | web page, word | |
| Contextualism and Fallibilism | in J. Ichikawa, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism (2017) | pdf . | |
The Appearance of Ignorance: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Vol. 2 |
Oxford University Press (UK), 2017 |
drafts of Introduction, chapters, and appendices, below list of references here: pdf Detailed table of contents: pdf |
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| KSC2, Introduction and Acknowledgements | |||
| KSC2, Chapter1: Solving the Skeptical Problem | |||
| KSC2, Chapter 2: Moorean Methodology and AI: Was the Skeptic Doomed to Inevitable Defeat? | pdf . | ||
| KSC2, Chapter 3: Two Substantively Moorean Responses and the Project of Refuting Skepticism | |||
| KSC2, Chapter 4: Contextualism and Skepticism: The Defeat of the Bold Skeptic | |||
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KSC2, Chapter 5: Lotteries, Insensitivity, and Closure (updated 12/19/16) |
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| KSC2, Chapter 6: Insensitivity | |||
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KSC2, Chapter 7: How Can We Know that We’re Not Brains in Vats?: Toward a Picture of Knowledge (updated 12/19/16) |
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| KSC2, Appendix A: Pryor and Byrne’s Comparisons | |||
| KSC2, Appendix B: Experimental-Philosophy-Style Surveys on AI’s First Premise | |||
| KSC2, Appendix C: Do I Even Know[o] Any of This to Be True?: Some Thoughts about Belief, Knowledge, and Assertion in Philosophical Settings and Other Knowledge Deserts | |||
| KSC2, Appendix D: Weakened Closure and Skeptical Arguments | |||
| KSC2, Appendix E: Attempts to Explicate Intuitive Fallibilism and the Distinction between Intuitive and Genuine Conflict (GC-) Fallbilism | |||
| KSC2, Appendix F: Stine-Validity, Stalnaker-Reasonableness, and Fallibilist Positions on the Infallibilist’s Tensions | |||
| KSC2, Chapter 2 + Appendix B combo | pdf . | ||
| Conditionals, Literal Content, and ‘DeRose’s Thesis’: A Reply to Barnett | Mind, 2012. | Mind. | |
| Replies (to Nagel, Ludlow, and Fantl & McGrath) for PPR Symposium on The Case for Contextualism. | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2012 | pdf. | Wiley |
| section of above on “loose usage” | PPR 2012 | pdf . | |
| Contextualism, Contrastivism, and X-Phi Surveys | Philosophical Studies, 2011. | pdf. | JSTOR, Springer |
| Insensitivity Is Back, Baby! | Philosophical Perspectives, 2010 | pdf. | Wiley, |
| The Conditionals of Deliberation^ | Mind, 2010 | pdf . | Oxford . |
| The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Vol. 1 | Oxford University Press, 2009 | book and chapter summaries: link. | |
| The Conditionals of Deliberation + Whither Middle Knowledge? — draft (incomplete and very rough in spots) of 1/23/06 | Old version. Much of this paper is now superseded by the above “The Conditionals of Deliberation,” but this has some material on middle knowledge not in the above. | ||
| Might God Have Reasons for Not Preventing Evils? — draft of 7/15/05 | proposed opening chapter for a book on the problem of evil to be co-written with Derk Pereboom | word , pdf | |
| Gradable Adjectives: A Defense of Pluralism^ | Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2008 | ||
| “Bamboozled by Our Own Words”: Semantic Blindness and Some Objections to Contextualism^ | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2006. | word, pdf, | JSTOR, Wiley. |
| The Ordinary Language Basis for Contextualism and the New Invariantism^ | The Philosophical Quarterly, 2005 | word, pdf, | JSTOR, Wiley, |
| Direct Warrant Realism^ | in A. Dole, A. Chignell, ed., God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion (Cambridge UP, 2005) | word, pdf, | |
| The Problem with Subject-Sensitive Invariantism^ | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2004 | word, pdf, | JSTOR, Wiley. |
| Single Scoreboard Semantics^ | Philosophical Studies, 2004 | word, pdf, | SpringerLink, JSTOR, |
| Sosa, Safety, Sensitivity, and Skeptical Hypotheses^ | in Greco, ed., Ernest Sosa and His Critics, Blackwell, 2004 | word, pdf, | |
| Externalism and Skepticism | Unpublished. Text for a talk given at the UNC-Chapel Hill Philosophy Colloquium on 11 October, 2003 | word, | |
| Assertion, Knowledge, and Context^ | Philosophical Review, 2002; and The Philosopher’s Annual, vol. 26 | word, pdf, pdf, . | JSTOR. |
| Now You Know It, Now You Don’t | Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2000); Vol. V, Epistemology | link, | |
| How Can We Know That We’re Not Brains in Vats? | Spindel Supplement to the Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2000. | link, | Wiley . |
| Ought We To Follow Our Evidence? | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2000 | word, | JSTOR. |
| Can It Be That It Would Have Been Even Though It Might Not Have Been? | Philosophical Perspectives, 1999. | pdf, . | JSTOR; Wiley, Ingenta; |
| Conditional Assertions and “Bisquit” Conditionals (with Richard E. Grandy) | Noûs, 1999. | JSTOR; Wiley, Ingenta; | |
| Contextualism: An Explanation and Defense | in J. Greco and E. Sosa, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, Blackwell Publishers, 1999 | word, pdf, | |
| Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader | Oxford University Press, 1999 | list of contents, contributors, other info: link | |
| Responding to Skepticism | in DeRose and Warfield, ed., Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader, Oxford UP, 1999 | link, | |
| Voodoo Epistemology | Unpublished. Text for a talk given at an SCP group meeting attached to the APA meetings, Dec. 27, 1999 | link, | |
| Are Christian Beliefs Properly Basic? | Unpublished. Text for a talk given at the 1998 Eastern Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association | link, | |
| Simple Might’s, Indicative Possibilities, and the Open Future | The Philosophical Quarterly, 1998. | JSTOR; Wiley, Ingenta; | |
| Knowledge, Assertion and Lotteries | Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1996 | word, pdf, | Informaworld, |
| Relevant Alternatives and the Content of Knowledge Attributions | Philosophy and Phenomonological Research, 1996. | JSTOR, | |
| Solving the Skeptical Problem^ | Philosophical Review, 1995; and The Philosopher’s Annual, vol. 18. | JSTOR, | |
| Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions^ | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1992 | JSTOR, | |
| Descartes, Epistemic Principles, Epistemic Circularity, and Scientia | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1992. | link, | |
| Deterrent Threats: What Can Matter | Philosophical Studies, 1992 | JSTOR; Springer, | |
| Plantinga, Presumption, Possibility, and the Problem of Evil | Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1991 | word, | JSTOR, |
| Epistemic Possibilities^ | Philosophical Review, 1991 | JSTOR, | |
| Knowledge, Epistemic Possibility, and Scepticism | UCLA doctoral dissertation, 1990 | info, links to chapters: link. | |
| Reid’s Anti-Sensationalism and His Realism | Philosophical Review, 1989 | JSTOR, | |
| Reviews: | |||
| Review of Jason Stanley, Knowledge and Practical Interests | Mind, 2007 | pdf, | Oxford Journals, |
| Review of Timothy Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2002 | word, pdf, | Oxford Journals, |
| Review of Avrum Stroll, Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1998 | JSTOR, | |
| Review of William L. Rowe, Thomas Reid on Freedom and Morality | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1993 | JSTOR, | |
| Review of Michael Williams, Unnatural Doubts: Epistemological Realism and the Basis of Scepticism | Philosophical Review, 1993 | JSTOR, | |
| Non-Philosophical (amateur theology): Universalism and the Bible |
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Books (Click on pics for better views of the book front covers):
