Richard Foley

Richard Foley is former Ann and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Vice-Chancellor for Strategic Planning at New York University. Previously he was chair of the Department of Philosophy, Executive  Dean of Arts and Science, and Dean of the Graduate School at Rutgers University, and prior to that, chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Foley's primary reserch interest is epistemology. His latest book (draft) is Epistemology with a  Broad and Long View.  His previous books include: The Geography of Insight: The Sciences, The Humanities, How They Differ, Why They Matter (Oxford University Press, 2018); When Is True Belief Knowledge? (Princeton University Press, 2012); Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Working Without a Net (Oxford University Press, 1993); and The Theory of Epistemic Rationality (Harvard University Press, 1987).

• Epistemology with a Broad and Long View (draft)
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• The Geography of Insight: The Humanities, the Science, How they differ, Why they matter, Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • Read the preface.
• When Is True Belief Knowledge?, Princeton University Press, 2012.
  • Read the abstract.
  • Read Part One.
• Intellectual Trust in Ourselves and Others, 2001.
  • Read Chapter 1.
  • Read Chapter 6.
• Working Without a Net, Oxford University Press, 1993.
  • Read the Preface.
  • Read Chapter 1.
• The Theory of Epistemic Rationality, Harvard University Press, 1987.
  • Read the Introduction.
  • Read Chapter 1.

“An Epistemology that Matters,” in Essays in Honor of Philip Quinn, ed. P. Weithman, 2008.

“Belief, Degrees of Belief, and the Lockean Thesis,” in Degrees of Belief, eds. F. Huber and C. Schmidt-Petri, 2008. 

“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.

“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.

"Chisholm's Epistemic Principles," in L. Hahn (ed.), The Philosophy of Roderick Chisholm (Chicago: Open Court, 1997)

“Quine and Naturalized Epistemology,” Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol XIX (1994), 245-260.

“Being Knowingly Incoherent,” Nous, vol. 26 (1992), 181-203.

“Evidence and Reasons for Belief,” Analysis, vol. 51 (1991), 98-102.

“Rationality, Belief and Commitment,” Synthese, vol. 89 (1991), 365-392.

“What’s Wrong with Reliabilism?”, The Monist, vol, 68 (1985), 188-202.

“Epistemic Indolence,” with Richard Fumerton, Mind, vol. 91 (1982), 38-56.