Professor of Philosophy; The Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science
B.A. from Miami University, Ph.D. from Brown University.

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Research Interests:

epistemology

Affiliations:

A member of the Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession, American Philosophical Association; Executive Board, The Center for Philosophical Education; and Committee on Research Universities, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. Served as the Executive Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Graduate School, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Earlier, he chaired the Philosophy Department at the University of Notre Dame.

Fellowships/Honors:

University of Notre Dame's Madden Award for outstanding teaching of first-year students.

Selected Works:

Books:

• The Theory of Epistemic Rationality, Harvard University Press, 1987.
• Working without a Net, Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Intellectual Trust in Ourselves and Others, 2001.

Recent Papers:

• "Universal Intellectual Trust," in Episteme, 2005.
• "A Trial Separation between the Theory of Knowledge and the Theory of Justified Belief," in Ernest Sosa and His Critics, ed. J. Greco, 2004.
• "Roderick M. Chisholm," in MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2004.
• "Justified Belief as Responsible Belief," in Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, eds. M Steup and E. Sosa, 2003.
• "Conceptual Diversity in Epistemology," in The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, ed. P. Moser, 2002.
• "Epistemic Rationality as Invulnerability to Self-Criticism," in Essential Knowledge, ed. S. Luper, 2002.
• "Review of Timothy Williamson, Knowledge and Its Limits," Mind, 2002.
• "The Foundational Role of Epistemology in a General Theory of Rationality," in Virtue Epistemology, eds. L Zagzebski and A. Fairweather, 2001.
• "Three Attempts to Refute Skepticism and Why They Fail," in The Skeptics: Contemporary Essays, ed. S. Luper, 2001.
• “What Am I to Believe?,” Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, eds. S. Wagner and R. Warner, 1993.
  ---Reprinted in J. Crumley, Readings in Epistemology, 1999.
  ---Reprinted in H. Kornblith, ed., Epistemology: Internalism and Externalism, 2001.

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