Below are links to some of my past and current work. Here is my CV
Book
Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief (Routledge, 2015)
Here is the Introduction.
Here are reviews: Ram Neta's in Mind (with a mistaken byline)
Here is a podcast of me talking about it.
Here is a symposium with commentaries and replies at Syndicate Philosophy
Here is a symposium with commentaries and replies at Syndicate Philosophy
Hope and Fantasy
I received a fellowship to work on the the ethics of hope
I received a fellowship to work on the the ethics of hope
Rational Hope,Philosophical Explorations, 2017
“The Value of a Free and Wandering Mind” In eds. Schmidt and Ernst. The Ethics of Belief and Beyond, (Routledge) 2020
Blog version at The Junkyard of the Mind
“The Value of a Free and Wandering Mind” In eds. Schmidt and Ernst. The Ethics of Belief and Beyond, (Routledge) 2020
Blog version at The Junkyard of the Mind
Belief
“Believing Badly: Doxastic Duties are not Epistemic Duties.” In eds. McCain and Stapleford Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (Routledge 2020)
Can Beliefs Be Based on Practical Reasons? In eds. Adam Carter and Pat Bondy, Well Founded Belief: New Essays on the Epistemic Basing Relation (Routledge 2019)
Synthese, 2021Value Beyond Truth Value: A Practical Response to Skepticism
No Kind of Reason is the Wrong Kind of Reason, In ed. McCain Believing in Accordance with the Evidence: New Essays on Evidentialism. (Springer) 2018.
Erkenntnis, 2018: Responding to Skepticism About Doxastic Agency
Philosophical Explorations, 2011: Taking Control of Belief
American Philosophical Quarterly, 2005: Compelled Belief
Ethics of Belief in the The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Revised 2019
Mind, 2017, On Ernest Sosa's Judgment and Agency
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2015, On Annalisa Coliva’s Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense
“Believing Badly: Doxastic Duties are not Epistemic Duties.” In eds. McCain and Stapleford Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles (Routledge 2020)
Can Beliefs Be Based on Practical Reasons? In eds. Adam Carter and Pat Bondy, Well Founded Belief: New Essays on the Epistemic Basing Relation (Routledge 2019)
Synthese, 2021Value Beyond Truth Value: A Practical Response to Skepticism
No Kind of Reason is the Wrong Kind of Reason, In ed. McCain Believing in Accordance with the Evidence: New Essays on Evidentialism. (Springer) 2018.
Erkenntnis, 2018: Responding to Skepticism About Doxastic Agency
Philosophical Explorations, 2011: Taking Control of Belief
American Philosophical Quarterly, 2005: Compelled Belief
Ethics of Belief in the The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Revised 2019
Mind, 2017, On Ernest Sosa's Judgment and Agency
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2015, On Annalisa Coliva’s Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense
Hume
Hume Studies, 2014: Hume’s Skeptical Politics
Hume Studies, 2005:Why Should We Be Wise?
History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2004: Hume, Wittgenstein and the Impact of Skepticism
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1999: A Change in Manner: Hume’s Scepticism in the Treatise and the first Enquiry
Hume Studies, 1993:Hume on Natural Belief and Original Principles
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2016: On Donald Ainslie’s Hume’s True Scepticism
Hume Studies, 2014: Hume’s Skeptical Politics
Hume Studies, 2005:Why Should We Be Wise?
History of Philosophy Quarterly, 2004: Hume, Wittgenstein and the Impact of Skepticism
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1999: A Change in Manner: Hume’s Scepticism in the Treatise and the first Enquiry
Hume Studies, 1993:Hume on Natural Belief and Original Principles
Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2016: On Donald Ainslie’s Hume’s True Scepticism
Works in Progress: If there is no link and you would like a copy of a draft, send me an email
Belief as Emotion
Are Constitutive Norms Normative? In eds. Baron Reed and Amy Floweree,Towards an Expansive Epistemology: Norms, Action, and the Social Sphere (Routledge), In Progress
Credible Messages of Hope
Belief as Emotion
Are Constitutive Norms Normative? In eds. Baron Reed and Amy Floweree,Towards an Expansive Epistemology: Norms, Action, and the Social Sphere (Routledge), In Progress
Credible Messages of Hope
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