Synopsis: Agents can have propositions as evidence even when they do not believe them. Cases of anxiety illustrate this possibility.
Synopsis: I develop an anti-luck condition for intentional action that depends on an agent's discriminative capacities rather than reliable success.
Synopsis: A hybridization of Newcomb's Problem and the Frustrater causes trouble for those who support two-boxing in Newcomb's Problem and envelope-taking in the Frustrater.
Synopsis: One objection to Juan Comesaña's account of epistemic justification claims it is committed to saying that certain reflective agents are required to form a doublethink attitude toward their future evidence. I argue that standard forms of fallibilist foundationalism have a similar commitment.
Synopsis: Some philosophers think evidence can be unspecific. If so, then some alleged counterexamples to causal decision theory fail. This shows that theories of evidence and decision can be intertwined.
Synopsis: A reasons-responsive account of moral responsibility implies that non-human animals can be praiseworthy. This implication should be accepted.
Winner of the Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association Essay Prize for Emerging Scholars.
Aliya and I discussed this paper on the podcast Knowing Animals here.
Synopsis: You can know P even if P was inferred from a blindspot proposition.
Synopsis: A parity between epistemic and moral normativity is a challenge for moral error theorists. They have responded to this challenge in three different ways. All three have problems.
The following projects are at a stage where I would be happy to share a draft.
A paper discussing the possibility of justified belief in skeptical scenarios.
A paper discussing Cartesianism and luminosity.
A paper on foundationalism and empirical evidence.
A paper on binding and two-boxing.
The following are projects that I currently do not intend to publish or pursue further. However, I think they contain ideas that are interesting enough to share.
Synopsis: A theory of decision that combines elements of Causal Decision Theory and Evidential Decision Theory fares well in light of alleged counterexamples to both theories.
A Fair Shake for Fragmentalism
Synopsis: Puzzles in the conceptual foundations of physics suggest that reality is fundamentally fragmented.
at the Central APA 2024
at Metaphysical Mayhem 2023
at the Central APA 2022