CurriculumVitae
RamNeta
Dept.ofPhilosophy
CB#3125,CaldwellHallUniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHillChapelHill, NC 27599-3125
Phone: 919-962-3321
Employment:
ProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill,2013–present.
AssociateProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill,2008–2013. AssistantProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill,2003–2008. AssistantProfessorofPhilosophy,UniversityofUtah,1998–2003.
VisitingInstructor,DepartmentofPhilosophy,CarnegieMellonUniversity,1995-97.
Education:
UniversityofPittsburgh,Ph.D.,philosophy,1997. HarvardUniversity,A.B.,philosophy,1988.
Awards:
UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Faculty Excellence 100+ Course Grant, 2015
UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Arts and Humanities Academic Excellence Award, 2015
UNC-ChapelHillUniversityResearchCouncilAward,2007
UNC-ChapelHillJuniorFacultyDevelopmentAward,2005
UNC-ChapelHillCollegeofArtsandSciencesSpray-RandleighFacultyFellowship,2003
UniversityofUtahFacultyFellowship,2000
ParticipantinNEHSummerSeminar“MooreandWittgensteinonCertainty”,UCSD,1998
SouthwesternPhilosophicalSocietyprizefor“Howcantherebesemanticfacts?”,1997
NationalScienceFoundationGraduateFellowship,1990-1993
EditedVolumes:
Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous, Volume 25: Normativity, Blackwell (2015)
CurrentControversiesinEpistemology,Routledge(2013)
Epistemology: Volumes1-4,Routledge(2012)
ThinkingIndependently: AnIntroductiontoPhilosophy,Cognella(2010,revisededition2012)
ArguingaboutKnowledge,co-editedwithDuncanPritchard,Routledge(2009)
Articles:
“Following a Rule” in Inference and Consciousness, edited by Timothy Chan and Anders Nes (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Can Reason Motivate? In Moral Rationalisms, edited by Francois Schroeter and Karen Jones (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“The Basing Relation: Conjuring under the Guise of the Justified”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
“Access Internalism and the Guidance Deontological Conception of Justification”, American Philosophical Quarterly53 (2016): 155 - 67.
“Coherence and Deontology”, Philosophical Perspectives: Epistemology, edited by John Hawthorneand Jason Turner (forthcoming)
“How Holy is the Disjunctivist Grail?”,Journal of Philosophical Research (forthcoming)
“EpistemicCircularityandVirtuousCoherence”inPerformanceEpistemology,edited byMiguelFernandez Vargas (OxfordUniversityPress,2016): 224 – 48.
“Perceptual Evidence and the Capacity View”, Philosophical Studies173 (2016): 907 – 14.
“Chalmers’sFrontloadingArgumentforAPrioriScrutability”,AnalysisReviews74 (2014): 651 – 61.
“TheEpistemic‘Ought’”inNaturalizingEpistemicVirtue,editedbyAbrolFairweather and Owen Flanagan(CambridgeUniversityPress,2014): 36 – 52.
“Klein’sCaseforInfinitism”inAdInfinitum: NewEssaysonEpistemologicalInfinitism,editedbyPeterKleinandJohnTurri(OxfordUniversityPress,2014): 143 – 61.
“WhatisanInference?”inPhilosophicalIssues: ASupplementtoNous23(2013): 388 – 407.
“EasyKnowledge,TransmissionFailure,andEmpiricism”,OxfordStudiesinEpistemology4(2013):
166–84.
“TheCaseAgainstPurity”,PhilosophyandPhenomenologicalResearch85(2012): 456–64.
“KnowingfromtheArmchairthatOurIntuitionsareReliable”,TheMonist95(2012): 332–54.
“Quine,Goldman,andTwoWaysofNaturalizingEpistemology”inEpistemology: TheKey Thinkers,editedbyStephenHetherington(Continuum,2012): 193–213.
“TheNatureandReachofPrivilegedAccess”inSelf-Knowledge,editedbyAnthonyHatzimoysis
(OxfordUniversityPress,2011): 9–32.
“ReflectionsonReflectiveKnowledge”,PhilosophicalStudies153(2011): 3-17.
“ARefutationofCartesianFallibilism”,Nous45(2011): 658–95.
“CanAPrioriEntitlementbePreservedbyTestimony?”inSocialEpistemology,editedbyAdrian
Haddock,AlanMillar,andDuncanPritchard(OxfordUniversityPress,2010): 194–215.
“ShouldWeSwapInternalFoundationsforVirtues?”,Critica42(2010): 43–56.
“LiberalismandConservatismintheEpistemologyofPerceptualBelief”,AustralasianJournalof
Philosophy88(2010): 685-705.
“HumanKnowledgeasaStandingintheSpaceofReasons”,PhilosophicalTopics37(2009): 115 –
32.
“DefeatingtheDogmaofDefeasibility”inWilliamsononKnowledge,editedbyPatrickGreenoughandDuncanPritchard(OxfordUniversityPress,2009): 161–82.
“TreatingSomethingasaReasonforAction”,Nous43(2009): 684–99.
“EmpiricismaboutExperience”,PhilosophyandPhenomenologicalResearch79(2009): 482–9.
“UnderminingtheCaseforContrastivism”,SocialEpistemology22(2008): 289–304.
“HowCheapCanYouGet?”,PhilosophicalIssues:ASupplementtoNous18(2008): 130–142.
“HowtoNaturalizeEpistemology”inNewWavesinEpistemology,editedbyDuncanPritchardand
VictorHendricks(PalgraveMacmillan,2008): 324–53.
“WhatEvidenceDoYouHave?”,BritishJournalforPhilosophyofScience59(2008): 89–119.
ReprintedinEpistemology,volume3,editedbyRamNeta(Routledge: London,2012).
“InDefenseofDisjunctivism”inDisjunctivism: Perception,Action,Knowledge,editedbyFiona
MacPhersonandAdrianHaddock(OxfordUniversityPress,2008): 311–29.
“FixingtheTransmission: TheNewMooreans”inThemesfromG.E.Moore: NewEssaysinEpistemology andEthics,editedbySusanaI.NuccetelliandGarySeay(OxfordUniversityPress,2007): 62–83.
“SafetyandEpistemicLuck”(withAvramHiller),Synthese158(2007): 303–13.
“InDefenseofEpistemicRelativism”,Episteme4(2007): 30–48.
“Anti-IntellectualismandtheKnowledge-ActionPrinciple”,PhilosophyandPhenomenologicalResearch75(2007): 180–7.
“PropositionalJustification,Evidence,andtheCostofError”,PhilosophicalIssues:ASupplementtoNous17(2007): 197–216.
“McDowellandtheNewEvilGenius”(withDuncanPritchard),PhilosophyandPhenomenological
Research74(2007): 381–96.
“ReplytoGallimore”,PhilosophicalStudies134(2007): 71–2.
“ContextualismandaPuzzleaboutSeeing”,PhilosophicalStudies134(2007): 53–63.
“EpistemologyFactualized: NewContractarianFoundationsforEpistemology”,Synthese150
(2006): 247–280.
“AContextualistSolutiontotheProblemofEasyKnowledge”,GrazerPhilosophischeStudien69(2005): 63–85.
“LuminosityandtheSafetyofKnowledge”(withGuyRohrbaugh),PacificPhilosophicalQuarterly85
(2004): 396–406.
“TheNormativeSignificanceofBruteFacts”,LegalTheory10(2004): 199–214.
ReprintedinLaw: Metaphysics,Meaning,andObjectivity,editedbyEnriqueVillanueva(Rodopi: AmsterdamandNewYork,2007): 75-94.
“Skepticism,Abductivism,andtheExplanatoryGap”,PhilosophicalIssues:ASupplementtoNous14
(2004): 296–325.
“PerceptualEvidenceandtheNewDogmatism”,PhilosophicalStudies119(2004): 199–214.
“Skepticism,Contextualism,andSemanticSelf-Knowledge”,PhilosophyandPhenomenologicalResearch67(2003): 396–411.
“ContextualismandtheProblemoftheExternalWorld”,PhilosophyandPhenomenologicalResearch66(2003): 1–31.
“Sknowsthatp”,Nous36(2002): 663–681.
“Howcantherebesemanticfacts?”,SouthwestPhilosophyReview14(1998): 25–30.
“StroudandMooreonskepticism”,SouthwestPhilosophyReview13(1997): 83-89.
EntriesinReferenceWorks:
“SkepticismabouttheExternalWorld”inSkepticism: FromAntiquitytothePresent,editedbyDiego
ManchucaandBaronReed(Bloomsbury,forthcoming)
“PhilosophyofLanguageforEpistemology”inRoutledgeCompaniontothePhilosophyofLanguage,edited byDeliaGraffFaraandGillianRussell(Routledge,2012):693–704.
“TheBasingRelation”inRoutledgeCompaniontoEpistemology,editedbySvenBerneckerandDuncan
Pritchard(Routledge,2010):109–18.
“CausalTheoriesofKnowledgeandPerception”inOxfordHandbookofCausation,editedbyHelen
BeebeeandPeterMenzies(Oxford: OxfordUniversityPress,2009):592–606.
“Contextualism”inTheEncyclopediaofPhilosophy,2ndEdition,editedbyDonaldBorchert(Detroit: MacMillanReferenceUSA,2006).
BookReviews:
Review of Miriam McCormick, Believing Against the Evidence (Routledge, 2015) Mind (forthcoming)
Review of Ernest Sosa, Judgment and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2015) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (December, 2015)
ReviewofJasonStanley,KnowledgeandPracticalInterests(OxfordUniversityPress,2005),The
PhilosophicalReview121(2012): 298–301.
ReviewofJeremyFantlandMatthewMcGrath,KnowledgeinanUncertainWorld(OxfordUniversity
Press,2009),ThePhilosophicalQuarterly62(2011): 211–5.
ReviewofErnestSosa,AVirtueEpistemology(OxfordUniversityPress,2007),NotreDamePhilosophicalReviews(May,2008)
ReviewofDavidFinkelstein,ExpressionandtheInner(HarvardUniversityPress,2003),ThePhilosophicalReview117(2008): 310–3.
ReviewofNaturalisminQuestion,eds.DeCaroandMacarthur(HarvardUniversityPress,2004),The
PhilosophicalReview116(2007): 657–63.
ReviewofChristopherPeacocke,TheRealmofReason(OxfordUniversityPress,2003),NotreDame
PhilosophicalReviews(October,2004)
Presentations:
“It’s A Priori that It’s A Posteriori that You’re not a Brain in a Vat”, presented to the University of Pittsburgh Disjunctivism Workshop (Pittsburgh, PA) April 2016
“Basing and Conjuring”, presented to
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) March 2016
Normativity of Attitudes Conference at Saarland University (Saarbucken, Germany) November 2015
Online Brains Conference (Tallahassee, FL) December 2015
“Basing and Treating”, presented to
Conference on Epistemic Normativity (Helsinki, Finland) August 2015
Rutgers Epistemology Conference (New Brunswick, NJ) May 2015
Pacific Division Meeting of the APA (Vancouver, BC) April 2015
“Coherence as a Condition of Rationality”, presented to
20th Annual Meeting of SOFIA (Huatulco, MX) January 2015
The Philosophy Department at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) November 2014
“Hypothetical Cases, and the Program of Negative X-Phi”,presentedto
EasternDivisionMeetingoftheAPA(Baltimore,MD),December2013
“KnowledgeandReasons”,presentedaskeynoteaddresstoCalgaryGraduatePhilosophy
Conference(Calgary,AB)March2013
“WhatisanInference?”,presentedto
The Philosophy Department at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, NE) April 2014
The Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado (Boulder, CO) February 2014
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatPrincetonUniversity(Princeton,NJ)February2014
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatStanfordUniversity(PaloAlto,CA)December2013
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofGeneva(Geneva,Swithzerland)April2013
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatOberlinCollege(Oberlin,OH)February2013
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill(ChapelHill,NC) November2012
“DoestheEpistemic‘Ought’ImplytheCognitive‘Can’?”,presentedto
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatMcMasterUniversity(Hamilton,ON)September2012
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofGuelph(Guelph,ON)September2012
TheArcheCenterattheUniversityofSt.Andrews(St.Andrews,UK)May2012
TheUNC/King’sCollege,LondonEpistemologyConference(London,UK)May2012
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofEdinburgh(Edinburgh,UK)May2012
TheNorthwestern/NotreDamePhilosophyConference(Chicago,IL)April2012
CentralDivisionMeetingoftheAPA(Chicago,IL)April2012
“EasyKnowledge,TransmissionFailure,andEmpiricism”,presentedto
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofPittsburgh(Pittsburgh,PA)November2011
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatFordhamUniversity(NewYork,NY)November2011
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofRichmond(Richmond,VA)November2011
“EasyKnowledgeandReliabilism”,presentedto
PacificDivisionMeetingoftheAPA(SanDiego,CA)April2011
“KnowingfromtheArmchairthatOurIntuitionsareReliable”,presentedto
NEHSummerSeminaronExperimentalEpistemology(Tucson,AZ)July2012
WorkshoponExperimentalEpistemology(SanDiego,CA)April2011
“SosaonBasicKnowledgeandEasyKnowledge”,presentedto
TheVirtueEpistemologyConferenceatUNAM(MexicoCity,Mexico)January2011
“Knowledge,SafetyandtheStateofNature”,presentedto
TheArcheCenterattheUniversityofSt.Andrews(St.Andrews,UK)May2010
ConferenceonCognitiveEthologyattheUniversityofEdinburgh(Edinburgh,UK)May2010
“EasyKnowledge,Bootstrapping,andHigher-OrderReasons”,presentedto
ArcheConferenceonEvidence(St.Andrews,UK)May2010
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofVermont(Burlington,VT)April2010
“EvidencethatStakesDon’tMattertoEvidence”,presented(withMarkPhelan)attheExperimental
EpistemologyWorkshopattheUniversityofBuffalo(Buffalo,NY)October2009
“DefendingthePurityofKnowledge: AReplytoFantlandMcGrath”,presentedattheArche
ConferenceonContextualism(St.Andrews,UK)May2009
“Liberalism,Conservatism,Mooreanism,andRationalism”,presentedattheConferenceonthe
EpistemologyofPerceptualJudgmentatBrownUniversity(Providence,RI)February2009
“EpistemicPossibility: InDefenseofContextualism”,presentedto
PacificDivisionMeetingoftheAPA(Pasadena,CA)March2008
“KnowledgeandtheSpaceofReasons,presentedto
AHRCworkshoponbasicknowledge(Edinburgh,UK)May2008
AHRCconferenceattheUniversityofStirling(Stirling,UK)November2007
“Coherence”,presentedto
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofTexas(Austin,TX)August2008
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatSt.AndrewsUniversity(St.Andrews,UK)May2008
CambridgeMoralSciencesClubatUniversityofCambridge(Cambridge,UK)May2008
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatHarvardUniversity(Cambridge,MA)April2008
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheJohnsHopkinsUniversity(Baltimore,MD)October2007
“Coherence,thePreface,andtheLottery”,presentedto
TheBledEpistemologyConference(Bled,Slovenia)May2007
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofAberdeen(Aberdeen,UK)May2007
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofEdinburgh(Edinburgh,UK)May2007
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatVirginiaCommonwealthUniversity(Richmond,VA)March2007
“DefendingAccessInternalism”,presentedatPacificDivisionMeetingoftheAPA(Portland,OR) March2006
“DefeatingtheDogmaofDefeasibility”,presentedto
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofMichigan(AnnArbor,MI)February2006
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofNorthCarolina–ChapelHill(ChapelHill,NC) December2005
“FixingtheTransmission: TheNewMooreans”,presentedto
GraduateSeminaratBrownUniversity(Providence,RI)February2006
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheAustralianNationalUniversity(Canberra,Australia)November
2005
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheUniversityofMelbourne(Melbourne,Australia)October2005
“InDefenseofDisjunctivism”,presentedattheConferenceonDisjunctivismattheUniversityof
Glasgow(Glasgow,UK)June2005
“WhatMakesforEpistemicExcellence?”,presentedatCentralDivisionMeetingoftheAPA (Chicago,IL)April2005
“AnInternalistRefutationofFallibilism”,presentedto
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatMonashUniversity(Melbourne,Australia)October2005
ThePhilosophyDepartmentatEastCarolinaUniversity(Greenville,NC)April2005
ThePhilosophyDepartmentattheMassachusettsInstituteofTechnology(Cambridge,MA)March
2005
“UnderminingtheCaseforContrastivism”,presentedattheConferenceonContrastivismatthe
UniversityofAarhus(Aarhus,Denmark)February2005
“TheIndefeasibilityofKnowledgeandRationalBelief”,presentedtoSouthernSocietyfor
PhilosophyandPsychologyMeeting(NewOrleans,LA)April2004
“Skepticism,Contextualism,andaPuzzleaboutSeeing”,presentedto
Semantics/PragmaticsWorkshopattheUniversityofVirginia(Charlottesville,VA)May2004
InlandNorthwestPhilosophyConference(Pullman,WAandMoscow,ID)May2004
EpistemologyConferenceattheUniversityofNorthCarolina,Greensboro(Greensboro,NC)March
2004
“TheNormativeSignificanceofBruteFacts”,presentedtotheConferenceonLegalPhilosophyat theUniversidadNacionalAutonomadeMexico(UniversityCity,Mexico)July2003
“WhyShouldWeTrustOurSenses?”,presentedto
GraduateSeminaronConceptsatPrincetonUniversity(Princeton,NJ)April2003
ThePhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofFlorida(Gainesville,FL)April2003
"LuminosityandtheSafetyofKnowledge"(withGuyRohrbaugh),presentedatPacificDivision
MeetingoftheAPA(SanFrancisco,CA)March2003
“WhyShouldWeTrustAppearances?”,presentedatNorthCarolinaPhilosophicalSocietyMeeting
(Charlotte,NC)February2003
"BasicKnowledgeandEasyKnowledge",presentedtothePhilosophyDepartmentatAuburn
University(Auburn,AL)December2002
“PerceptualEvidenceandtheNewDogmatism”,presentedattheconference“Contextualismin EpistemologyandBeyond”,hostedbythePhilosphyDepartmentoftheUniversityof Massachusettes(Amherst,MA)October2002
“HowExperienceTeaches”,presentedtothePhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofNorth
Carolina,ChapelHill(ChapelHill,NC)August2002
“AbductiveSolutionstoCartesianSkepticism”,presentedatPacificDivisionAPAMeetingof
SocietyforSkepticalStudies(Seattle,WA)March2002
“WhatisPerception?”,presentedtothe
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofUtah(SaltLakeCity,UT)April2002
PhilosophyDepartmentofYorkUniversity(Toronto,Ontario)February2002
“ThePossibilityofaFeministEpistemology”,presentedataRosenblattlunchmeetingofthe
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofUtah(SaltLakeCity,UT)January2002
“AbductiveSolutionstoCartesianSkepticism”,presentedtothe
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofHongKong(HongKong,China)November2001
PhilosophyDepartmentofLingnanUniversity(HongKong,China)November2001
“Skepticism,Contextualism,andSemanticSelf-Knowledge”,presentedtothePhilosophy
DepartmentoftheUniversityofMassachusettes(Amherst,MA)April2001
“Wittgensteinonskepticismandcommonsense”,presentedtothePhilosophyDepartmentof
HamiltonCollege(Clinton,NY)April2001
“Skepticism,Contextualism,andSemanticTracking”presentedat
PacificDivisionAPAMeetingofSocietyforSkepticalStudies(SanFrancisco,CA)March2001
Mid-SouthPhilosophyConference(Memphis,TN)February2001
“Howtoraiseandlowertheveilofideas”,presentedattheconference“Skepticismand Interpretation”,hostedbytheAmsterdamSchoolforCulturalAnalysis,TheoryandInterpretation (ASCA)attheUniversityofAmsterdam(Amsterdam,TheNetherlands)June2000
“Howtoraiseandlowertheveilofideas”,presentedto
OckhamSocietyattheUniversityofOxford(Oxford,UK)October2000
PhilosophyDepartmentofUniversityCollege,London(London,UK)October2000
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofReading(Reading,UK)October2000
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofBritishColumbia(Vancouver,BC)March2000
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofUtah(SaltLakeCity,UT)February1998
DepartmentofPhilosophyReligionofColgateUniversity(Hamilton,NY)February1998
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheCollegeofNewJersey(Trenton,NJ)January1998
“Sknowsthatp”presentedto
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofSouthhampton(Southhampton,UK)October2000
“Howtobeaninfallibilist”,presentedat
EasternDivisionalMeetingoftheAPA(Boston,MA)December1999,and
NorthTexasPhilosophicalAssociationMeeting(Dallas,TX)March1999
“Doesthetheoryofknowledgerestonamistake?”,presentedto
PhilosophyDepartmentoftheUniversityofUtah(SaltLakeCity,UT)January2000
PhilosophyDepartmentofAuburnUniversity(Auburn,AL)November1999
“RieberonSkepticism”,presentedat
Mid-SouthPhilosophyConference(Memphis,TN)February2000
CentralStatesPhilosophyConference(Norman,OK)October1999
“Skepticismandthefirstperson”,presentedatMid-SouthPhilosophyConference(Memphis,TN) March1999
“Howcantherebesemanticfacts?”,presentedatSouthwesternPhilosophicalSocietyAnnual
Meeting(Memphis,TN)October1997. (PrizeforbestpaperbyastudentorrecentPh.D.)
“Skepticismabouttheexternalworldandcoherenceamongbeliefs”,presentedatRutgersUniversity
GraduatePhilosophyConference(NewBrunswick,NJ)April1997
“Indefenseofnon-reliabilisticfoundationalism”,presentedatMid-SouthPhilosophyConference
(Memphis,TN)February1997
“StroudandMooreonskepticism”,presentedatSouthwesternPhilosophicalSocietyAnnualMeeting
(KansasCity,MO)November1996
CommentsPresented:
Comments on Duncan Pritchard’s Epistemic Angst for Author Meets Critics session at Pacific Division Meeting of the APA (San Francisco, CA) April 2016
CommentsonDavidChalmers’sConstructingtheWorldforAuthorMeetsCriticssessionatPacific
DivisionMeetingoftheAPA(SanFrancisco,CA)March2013
CommentsonEricMarcus’sRationalCausationforAuthorMeetsCriticssessionatCentralDivision
MeetingoftheAPA(NewOrleans,LA)February2013
CommentsonJeremyFantlandMatthewMcGrath’sKnowledgeinanUncertainWorldforAuthorMeetsCriticssessionatCentralDvisionMeetingoftheAPA(Chicago,IL)February2012
CommentsonErnestSosa’sAVirtueEpistemology: AptBeliefandReflectiveKnowledge,volumeIIfor
AuthorMeetsCriticssessionatPacificDivisionMeetingoftheAPA(SanFrancisco,CA)March
2010
Discussantat2009RutgersEpistemologyConference(NewBrunwick,NJ)May2009
CommentonMichaelWilliams’s“Scepticism,EvidenceandEntitlement”attheUniversityof
Edinburghworkshoponskepticism(Edinburgh,UK)May2008
CommentonPeterLudlow’s“KnowledgeReportsandIndexicality”attheUniversityofAberdeen
LinguisticsandEpistemologyConference(Aberdeen,Scotland)May2007
CommentonErnestSosa’s“EpistemicNormativity”forOn-linePhilosophyConferencehostedby
GeorgiaStateUniversity,April2007
CommentonJohnHawthorne’s“EpistemicModals”atSOFIAXVIIIConference(Cancun,Mexico) January2007
CommentonAnthonyCorsentino’s“PredicatesandProperties”atEasternDivisionMeetingofthe
APA(NewYorkNY)December2005
CommentonDuncanPritchard’sbookEpistemicLuckatbooksymposiumofPacificDivision
MeetingoftheAPA(SanFrancisco,CA)March2005
CommentonAllanGibbard’s“TruthandCorrectBelief”atSOFIAXVIConference(Huatulco, Mexico)January2005
CommentonMylanEngel’s“TheEquivocalorQuestion-BeggingNatureofEvilDemon ArgumentsforExternalWorldSkepticism”atSouthwesternPhilosophicalSocietyMeeting(New Orleans,LA)November2004
CommentonPaulBoghossian’s“EpistemicRelativism”atSOFIAXVConference(PortoAlegre, Brazil)May2004
CommentonJuanComesana’s“UnsafeKnowledge”atPacificDivisionMeetingoftheAPA (Pasadena,CA)March2004
CommentonSusannaSiegel’s“Misperception”atVirgilC.AldrichWasatchFrontPhilosophy
Conference(SaltLakeCity,UT)April2002
CommentonJonathanSchaffer’s“ContrastiveKnowledge”atPacificDivisionMeetingoftheAPA (Seattle,WA)March2002
CommentonJamesSummerford’s“VirtueepistemologyandtheGettierproblem”atCentral
DivisionMeetingoftheAPA(NewOrleans,LA)May1999
CommentonEricRubenstein’s“Sellarswithouthomogeneity”atPacificDivisionMeetingofthe
APA(Berkeley,CA)April1999
Teaching:
Coursera
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue Beginning Fall 13, ongoing
UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill
Seminar: Reasoning and Rule FollowingSpring 16
Dissertation Research SeminarFall 15
Critical ThinkingFall 15
Introduction to Philosophy: Main ProblemsSummer 15
Critical ThinkingSummer 15
Seminar: The history of skepticism Spring 15
Critical ThinkingSpring 15
Dissertation Research SeminarFall 14
Introduction to Philosophy: Main ProblemsSummer 14
Theory of KnowledgeSpring 14
Dissertation Research SeminarSpring 14
Critical ThinkingFall13
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSummer13
DissertationresearchseminarSpring13
Seminar: thephilosophyofhumorSpring13
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsFall12
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSummer12
DissertationresearchseminarSpring12
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSpring12
Seminar: theproblemofinductionFall11
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSummer11
Seminar: earlyanalyticphilosophyFall10
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSummer10
Seminar: knowingourownmindsSpring10
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSpring10
Seminar: epistemicnormsFall09
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSummer09
TheoryofKnowledgeFall08
Seminar: knowledgeandjustificationSpring08
TheoryofKnowledgeSpring08
Seminar: reasonsFall07
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsFall07
ProtoseminarSpring07
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSpring07
Seminar: earlyanalyticphilosophySpring06
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSpring06
Seminar: theregressofreasonsSpring05
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSpring05
HistoryofModernPhilosophyFall04
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsSpring04
ProtoseminarSpring04
Researchgroup: epistemicrationalityFall03
HistoryofModernPhilosophyFall03
Seminar: earlyanalyticphilosophySpring03
ExperienceandRealitySpring03
Seminar: philosophyofmindFall02
IntroductiontoPhilosophy: MainProblemsFall02
AdministrativeResponsibilities:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Faculty Council(15 – 16)
DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofNorthCarolina,ChapelHill
Chair,placementcommittee(04–05,08–16) Recruitmentcommittee (04–08, 14 – 15) Chair,Visitorrecruitmentcommittee (03–04) Graduateadmissionscommittee (03–04,06–08) Placementcommittee (03–16)
Speakerscommittee(05–08,12-13) Philosophyofmindareaexamcommittee (03–08) Epistemologyareaexamcommittee (03–16)
Modernphilosophyareaexamcommittee(03–06) OrganizerofWorkshoponEpistemicNorms (05–06) Grievancecommittee (11–13)
ServicetotheProfession:
Book Symposium Editor for Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2014 – present)
RefereeforActaAnalytica,AmericanPhilosophicalQuarterly,AnalyticPhilosophy,AustralasianJournalof Philosophy,BritishJournalfor the History of Philosophy,British Journal for thePhilosophyofScience,CanadianJournalofPhilosophy,Dialectica,Episteme,Ethical TheoryandMoralPractice,Erkenntnis,EuropeanJournalofPhilosophy,Inquiry,InternationalJournalof PhilosophicalStudies,JournalofPhilosophicalResearch,LawandPhilosophy,Mind,MindandLanguage,Nous, Oxford Studies, PacificPhilosophicalQuarterly,Philosophers’Imprint,Philosophia,PhilosophicalPapers,PhilosophicalReview, PhilosophicalStudies,PhilosophicalPsychology,PhilosophicalQuarterly,PhilosophyandPhenomenologicalResearch, PhilosophyCompass,SouthernJournalofPhilosophy,Synthese,Teorema,Theoria
RefereeforCambridgeUniversityPress,HarvardUniversityPress,OxfordUniversityPress, Palgrave MacMillan, PrincetonUniversityPress,RoutledgePress,Taylor and Francis, InternetEncyclopediaofPhilosophy,Rutgers’Young EpistemologistPrize,Sanders Prize for Epistemology, SocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada,Israeli ScienceFoundation,SwissNationalScienceFoundation, Austrian Science Foundation,SouthernSocietyforPhilosophyand Psychology
MemberofprogramcommitteeforEasternDivisionoftheAmericanPhilosophicalAssociation (spring2006–fall2008);advisorycommitteeforEasternDivisionoftheAmericanPhilosophical Association(summer2010–summer2013)
EditorialBoardforPhilosophyCompassandforContinuum’sCriticalIntroductionstoEpistemologyseries
Tenureandpromotionreviewerformanydepartments(2011-present) SurveyrespondentforPhilosophicalGourmetReport(2004–present)