GUY AXTELL

GUY AXTELL, Ph.D.

SELECTED RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

                              Book, Knowledge, Belief, and Character: Readings in Virtue Epistemology
                                                                    Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. Contents & "Introduction".

Site Administrator, Janusblog: The Virtue Theory Discussion Forum

A. Epistemology/Metaphysics

                  Book Chapters and Invited Encyclopedia Entries



"From Evidentialism to Responsibilism: Disagreement and the Ethics of Belief,” in Evidentialism and its Discontents, T. Dougherty (ed.)., forthcoming OUP: 2009.

“Virtue-Theoretic Responses to Skepticism,” in Oxford Handbook on Skepticism, John Greco (ed.). OUP, 2008: 557-580 [Draft version; please cite published chapter].

“Epistemic Virtue,” in Blackwell Companion to Epistemology, (2nd ed.), Matthias Steup, ed., 2008 forthcoming. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. [Draft version; please cite published chapter].

“Rationalism,” in John Lachs and Robert Talisse (eds.), 2008, Routledge Encyclopedia of American Philosophy: 344-351.

“Felix Culpa: Luck in Ethics and Epistemology,” Reprinted in Brady & Pritchard, Moral and Epistemic Virtues, (2003) 235-257.

"Epistemic Luck in Light of the Virtues," in Virtue Epistemology, Abrol Fairweather & Linda Zagzebski [Draft version; please cite published chapter].




                           Selected Journal Articles

(with J. Adam Carter). "Just the Right Thickness: Second-Wave Virtue Epistemologies," in Philosophical Papers edition, "Epistemology Through Thick and Thin," 37, 3: 413-434 ( Nov. 2008). [Draft version; please cite published paper].
“Intersections: Character-trait Attributions in Ethics and Epistemology,” with Virtue & Vice: Moral and Intellectual conference proceedings, Metaphilosophy, forthcoming 2009. [Powerpoint presentation].
“Expanding Epistemology: A Responsibilist Approach,” Phil. Papers , 37, 1, (2008): 51-88, symposium with R. Brandom, M. Williams and M. Fricker on "Reconciling Reliability and Responsibility" [Draft version; please cite published chapter].
"Two for the Show: Anti-Luck and Virtue Epistemologies in Consonance,” in Synthese, 2007 edition on "Epistemic Luck."
“The Present Dilemma in Philosophy,” in Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 3, 1, June 2006.
"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, 3, 1996: 172-198.
"The Professional Quest For Truth," Social Epistemology, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1994: 57-80.
“Recent Work in Applied Virtue Ethics,” American Philosophical Quarterly, forthcoming 2009.

Epistemology/Meta-ethics Drafts and Works in Progress

(with Philip Olson) "Three Independent Factors in Epistemology: Deweyan Axiology Revisited (for “Epistemic Goodness” conference, 2009). Typescript.
“General Theory of Value, 1909-2009: Reflections on the First Centennial of American Axiology” (for Bled “Virtue and Value” conference). Typescript.
“Thick Epistemic Concepts and Diachronic Rationality” (for the 2009 “Thick Concepts” University of Kent Conference)
“Pragmatism and the Epistemology of Disagreement.” Typescript for 2009 Episteme Conference (the Social Epistemology Study Group).
“The Contributions of Diachronic Rationality to Epistemic Value.” Typescript.
“Why Deliberative Democratists Should Not be Evidentialists” (for Episteme conference)
“Thickies: The Pragmatist 'Friends of Entanglement'”( 2008 Episteme conference paper, draft under review).
“Utilitarianism and Dewey’s ‘Three Independent Factors in Morals’”. Typescript.
Review of Robert C. Roberts and W. Jay Wood, Intellectual Virtues, in Ethics 2009, forthcoming.

B. Analytic & East/West Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Book in progress: Religious Exclusivism and Intellectual Virtue [manuscript/proposal under review]
“Blind Man’s Bluff: The ‘Basic Belief Apologetic’” Phil. Studies (2006) 130: 131-152 ( Stirling Conference paper)
Critical Notice. John Bishop's Believing by Faith: On the Epistemology and Ethics of Belief. Phil. & Phenomenological Research, Forthcoming, 2009.
Review of Stuart Rosenbaum (ed), Pragmatism and Religion, in Contemporary Pragmatism (2005).
Review of 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.
“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.

C. 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.

D. American Philosophy (see also philosophy of religion and epistemology titles, above)

“Teaching James’s ‘The Will to Believe,’” in Teaching Philosophy, 24:4, 2001: 325-345.
J. Smith, America's Philosophical Vision (1992), Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. XI, No. 4, 1998: 315-317.
Nicholas Rescher, Cognitive Economy, SAAP Newsletter, Fall, 1991: 8-10.
"Normative Epistemology and the Bootstrap Theory," The Philosophical Forum, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, 1992: 329-343.
Nicholas Rescher, A System of Pragmatic Idealism, SAAP Newsletter, 63, 1992: 13-15.