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The Virtue Theory
Discussion Forum.
Book, Knowledge,
Belief, and Character: Readings in Virtue Epistemology.
Rowman &
Littlefield, 2000. Contents
& "Introduction".
A.
Epistemology & Analytic
Philosophy of Religion
Articles and Book Chapters
- “Expanding
Epistemology: A Responsibilist Approach,” forthcoming in Phil. Papers 2008, Topic:
"Reconciling Reliability and Responsibility"
- “Virtue-Theoretic
Responses to Skepticism,” in Oxford
Handbook of Skepticism, John Greco (ed.). Oxford Univ.
Press, 2008, forthcoming.
- "Two for the Show:
Anti-Luck and Virtue Epistemologies in Consonance,” in Synthese,
2007, a special edition on "epistemic luck."
- “Blind Man’s
Bluff: The ‘Basic Belief Apologetic’” Phil. Studies (2006)
130: 131-152 ( Stirling Conference paper)
- “The
Present Dilemma in Philosophy,” in Contemporary
Pragmatism, Vol. 3, 1, June 2006.
- “Felix Culpa: Luck in
Ethics and Epistemology,” Metaphilosophy. Reprinted
in. Brady & Pritchard, Moral and Epistemic Virtues, 235-257.
- "Epistemic
Luck in Light of the Virtues," in Virtue Epistemology,
Abrol Fairweather & Linda Zagzebski (.). Oxford
University Press, 2002.
- "Virtue
Theory and the Fact/Value Problem," in Axtell, 2000 (cited above).
- "The Role of the Intellectual Virtues in the Reunification
of Epistemology," The Monist, Vol. 81:3, July 1998: 353-370.
- "Recent Work on Virtue Epistemology,"
American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1, 1997: 1-26.
- "Epistemic Virtue-Talk:
The Reemergence of American Axiology?" The Journal of
Speculative Philosophy, Vol. X, No. 3, 1996: 172-198.
- “Rationalism,” in John and Robert (eds.), Routledge
Encyclopedia of American Philosophy 2006(c) forthcoming (invited).
Epistemology Drafts and Works
in Progress
- "Thick and Thin Concepts in Ethics and Epistemology,"
draft for 2008 APA Pacific Symposium, "Thick & Thin Concepts."
- "On Knowing in Virtue of a Virtue," for Virtue & Vice Conference, CSU
Fullerton, June 2008.
- Critical Notice. John Bishop's Believing by Faith: On the Epistemology
and Ethics of Belief. Forthcoming, Phil. & Phenomenological Research.
- "Living Experiments and Experiments in Living." For William James Society meeting with
2007 APA Central.
- "From Internalist Evidentialism to Virtue Responsibilism."
draft, under review.
- Critical Notice. "The Linguistic Turn, The Contextualist
Turn, and the
Pragmatic Outcome," on J. Stanley's Knowledge and Pratical Interests.
B. American Philosophy
- “Teaching
James’s ‘The Will to Believe,’” in Teaching Philosophy,
24:4, 2001: 325-345.
- Review
of Stuart Rosenbaum (ed.), Pragmatism
and Religion, in Contemporary
Pragmatism (2005).
- Charles
Taylor, Varieties of
Religion Today, (Dec. 2002), Philosophy in Review.
- Hunter
Brown, William James on
Radical Empiricism and Religion (Dec. 2001), Philosophy in
Review.
- J. Smith, America's
Philosophical Vision (1992), Journal of Speculative Philosophy,
Vol. XI, No. 4, 1998: 315-317.
- "The
Professional Quest For Truth," Social
Epistemology, Vol. 8,
No. 1, 1994: 57-80.
- "Normative
Epistemology and the
Bootstrap Theory," The Philosophical Forum, Vol. XXIII, No. 4,
1992: 329-343.
C. East/West Comparative Philosophy of
Religion
- “Religious
Pluralism and its Discontents,” Journal of Indian Philosophy
and Religion (2003).
- "Courage,
Caution, and Heaven’s
Gate: A Test Case for James’ Pragmatic Defense of Religious Belief," in
Philosophies of Religion, Art, & Creativity. Proceedings
of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy Vol. 4, 1999: 77-89.
- "Comparative
Dialectics: Nishida Kitaro's Logic of
Place and Western Dialectical Thought," Philosophy East & West,
Vol. 41, No. 2, 1991: 163-184.
D. Philosophy of Science
- "Explanation
and Social Science," Philosophy
of the Social Sciences, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1994: 252-256.
- "In the
Tracks of the Historicist
Movement," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol.
24, No. 1, 1993: 119-146. Oxford:
Pergamon Press.
- "Naturalism,
Normativity, and
Explanation," Metaphilosophy, Vol. 24, No. 3, 1993: 253-274. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell.
- "Logicism,
Pragmatism, and Metascience," PSA 1990,
Vol. 1: 39-49. Minneapolis:
Philosophy of Science Association.