Browsing by FAS Department "Philosophy"
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Belief and Ameliorative Epistemology
(2016-08-29)My dissertation is in three parts. In “Evidentialism and Belief Polarization,” I consider the epistemic import of a belief revision process known as belief polarization, in which exposure to a mixed batch of evidence ... -
Berkeley, Human Agency and Divine Concurrentism
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)Berkeley ’s commentators have been highly critical of his account of human agency. In this essay I argue that there is a rather straightforward reading of his view that is historically sensitive, philosophically well-motivated, ... -
Cavell on Outsiders and Others
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Ceteris Paribus Laws: Generics & Natural Kinds
(University of Michigan, 2010)Ceteris Paribus (cp-)laws may be said to hold only “other things equal,” signaling that their truth is compatible with a range of exceptions. This paper provides a new semantic account for some of the sentences used to ... -
The Claims of Animals and the Needs of Strangers: Two Cases of Imperfect Right
(Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, 2018)This paper argues for a conception of the natural rights of non-human animals grounded in Kant’s explanation of the foundation of human rights. The rights in question are rights that are in the first instance held against ... -
Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification
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Coherentism via Graphs
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) -
Comments on Michael Strevens's Depth
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) -
Comments on Weiss: The Unjust Philosophers of Republic 7
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Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen"
(Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 2006) -
The Commonwealth as Agent: Group Action, the Common Good, and the General Will
(2013-09-18)In this dissertation, I argue for a Rousseauvian vision of an ideal society: one in which the people constitute a group agent, unified under a collective will, willing action that constitutes the common good. Most have ... -
Conceptualism and Objectivity in Locke's Account of Natural Kinds
(2013-10-18)Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is considered by many to be the locus classicus of a number of influential arguments for conventionalism, according to which there are no objective, privileged ways of classifying ... -
Constitutivism and the virtues
(Informa UK Limited, 2019-04-05)In Self-Constitution, I argue that the principles governing action are “constitutive standards” of agency, standards that arise from the nature of agency itself. To be an agent is to be autonomously efficacious, and the ... -
Constructivism in Practical Philosophy
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Content of Perceptual Experience
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A Contractualist Reply
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Counsel and Command: An Address-Dependent Account of Authority
(2016-09-14)In this dissertation I develop an account of the concept of authority and the distinction between theoretical and practical authority in terms of their proper forms of interpersonal address. I then exploit the difference ... -
Creating the Kingdom of Ends: Reciprocity and Responsibility in Personal Relations
(Blackwell Publishing, 1992)When we hold a person responsible, we regard her as answerable for her actions, reaction, and attitudes. We use the concept of responsibility in two contexts, the legal and the personal. We use it in the legal context when ...