I've defended views about the epistemology of perception that I call “dogmatist.” They are
close to views defended by Michael Huemer and John Pollock, and somewhat more broadly …

Recent authors have drawn attention to a kind of defeating evidence commonly referred to
as higher-order evidence. Such evidence works by inducing doubts that one's doxastic state …

In this paper, I begin by defending permissivism: the claim that, sometimes, there is more
than one way to rationally respond to a given body of evidence. Then I argue that, if we …

Many views rely on the idea that it can never be rational to have high confidence in
something like," P, but my evidence doesn't support P." Call this idea the" Non-Akrasia …

Rational requirements have a special status in the theory of rationality. This is obvious in
one sense: they supply the content of that theory. But I want to suggest that rational …

Normative Externalism argues that it is not important that people live up to their own
principles. What matters, in both ethics and epistemology, is that they live up to the correct …

Evolutionary debunking arguments move from a premise about the influence of evolutionary
forces on our moral beliefs to a skeptical conclusion about those beliefs. My primary aim is to …

We suffer from genealogical anxiety when we worry that the contingent origins of our
representations, once revealed, will somehow undermine or cast doubt on those …

I believe that Tom is the proud father of a baby boy. Why do I think his child is a boy? A
natural answer might be that I remember that his name is' Owen'which is usually a boy's …

We often hear such casual accusations: you just believe that because you are a liberal, a
Christian, an American, a woman… When such charges are made they are meant to sting …