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)