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.
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