General Epistemology

Forthcoming (with Giacomo Melis). “Williamsonian Scepticism about the A Priori”
in Dylan Dodd and Elia Zardini, eds, Beyond Sense? New Essays on the Significance, Grounds, and Extent of the A Priori (Oxford University Press). [.pdf]

Forthcoming. Reprint of “Facts and Certainty” with a new introduction and retrospect in G. Anthony Bruno and Abby Rutherford, eds. Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries (Routledge).

2014. “On Epistemic Entitlement (II): Welfare State Epistemology” in Dylan Dodd and Elia Zardini (eds.). Scepticism and Perceptual Justification, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 213-247. [.pdf]

2012. “Warrant Transmission and Entitlement”, Part IV of “Replies” in Annalisa Coliva (ed.) Mind, Meaning and Knowledge: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright, Oxford University Press, pp. 451-486. [.pdf]

2011. “McKinsey One More Time” in Anthony Hatzimoysis, ed., Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 80-104. [.pdf]

2011. “Frictional Coherentism? A Comment on Chapter 10 of Ernest Sosa’s Reflective Knowledge”, Philosophical Studies 153 (1) 29-41. [.pdf]

2008. “Internal—External: Doxastic Norms and the Defusing of Sceptical Paradox” in the Journal of Philosophy CV (9), a special number on Epistemic Norms, edited by John Collins and Christopher Peacocke, 501-517. [.pdf]

2008. Comment on John McDowell’s “The disjunctive conception of experience as material for a transcendental argument” in A. Haddock and F. MacPherson, eds., Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 390-404. [.pdf]

2007. “The Perils of Dogmatism” in Themes from G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, edited by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay, Oxford University Press, 25-48. [.pdf]

2004. “Hinge Propositions and the Serenity Prayer” in Knowledge and Belief, Proceedings of the 26th International Wittgenstein Symposium, ed. W. Loffler and P. Weingartner (Vienna: Holder – Pickler-Tempsky), 287-306. [.pdf]

2004. “Warrant for Nothing: On Epistemic Entitlement”, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Vol. LXXVIII, 167-212 [.pdf]

2004. “Scepticism, Certainty, Moore and Wittgenstein”, in M. Kolbel and B. Weiss, eds., Wittgenstein’s Lasting Significance (Routledge). [.pdf]

2004. “Wittgensteinian Certainties” in D. McManus, ed. Wittgenstein and Scepticism, (Routledge), 22-55. [.pdf]

2003. “Some Reflections on the Acquisition of Warrant by Inference”, in S. Nuccetelli, ed., New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge (MIT Bradford) 57-77. [.pdf]

2002. “(Anti)-Sceptics, Simple and Subtle: G.E Moore and John McDowell”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXV, 330-48. [.pdf]

2000. “Replies” in Philosophical Issues 10, 201-19. [.pdf]

2000. “Cogency and Question-Begging: Some Reflections on McKinsey’s Paradox and Putnam’s Proof” in Philosophical Issues 10, 140-63. [.pdf]

1998. “McDowell’s Oscillation”, contribution to a Book Symposium on John McDowell’s Mind and World in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LVIII (2), 395-402. [.pdf]

1996. “Human Nature?”, critical study of John McDowell, Mind and World, in the European Journal of Philosophy 4, 235-54. Reprinted with a new postscript in Nicholas Smith, ed., Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, Routledge 2002, 140-73. [.pdf]

1994. Extended version of “”On Putnam’s Proof that we are not Brains-in-a-Vat”” in Reading Putnam, ed. P. Clark and R. Hale, Blackwell, 216-41. [.pdf]

1991. “On Putnam’s Proof that we are not Brains-in-a-Vat” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, XCII, 67-94. [.pdf]

1991. “Scepticism and Dreaming: Imploding the Demon”, Mind C, 87-116. [.pdf]

1985. “Facts and Certainty”, the Henriette Hertz Philosophical Lecture for the British Academy, December 1985, in Proceedings of the British Academy LXXI, 429- 72. Reprinted in T. Baldwin and T. Smiley, eds, Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge (Oxford University Press 2004), pp. 51-94, and in Bruno and Rutherford, eds, forthcoming. (See above).

1984. “Comment on Lowe”, Analysis 44, 183-5. [.pdf]

1983. “Keeping Track of Nozick”, Analysis 43, 134-40. [.pdf]