GUY AXTELL, Ph.D.

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

    Site Administrator, Janusblog: 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.