Department Publications
- James Simpson, “Getting a little closure for closure.” Synthese. August 23, 2021
Graduate student James Simpson surveys a variety of closure principles of epistemic justification before proposing a novel multi-premise closure principle that cannot be used in Cartesian skeptical arguments.
- Kelly Trogdon and D. Gene Witmer, “Full and Partial Grounding.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association. May 10, 2021
Kelly Trogdon and Gene Witmer argue for a definition of full grounding in terms of partial grounding, contrary to the current consensus in the literature.
- Arina Pismenny, “The Amorality of Romantic Love,” in R. Fedock, M. Kühler, and R. Rosenhagen (Eds.), Love, Justice, and Philosophical Perspectives. Routledge. (pp. 23-42) May 3, 2021
Dr. Arina Pismenny uses the model of emotional rationality to argue that romantic love is not essentially moral in nature.
- Rodrigo Borges, Introduction to the special issue ‘knowledge and justification: new perspectives,’ Synthese 198 (2021): 1473-80 April 30, 2021
Dr. Rodrigo Borges introduces a special issue of Synthese on "post-Gettier" approaches to knowledge and justification.
- Amber Ross and Mohan Matthen, “Multisensory Perception in Philosophy,” Multisensory Research 34.3 (2021): 219-231 March 15, 2021
In an editor's introduction to a special issue, Dr. Ross and her collaborator Dr. Matthen explore several puzzle cases for the view of perception embraced by European philosophers of the modern period.
- Rodrigo Borges, “Knowledge from knowledge,” American Philosophical Quarterly 57.3 (2020): 283-98. February 10, 2021
In a recent paper, Dr. Borges argues that inferential knowledge requires knowing all the propositions that knowledge depends on.
- John Palmer, The Method of Hypothesis and the Nature of Soul in Plato’s Phaedo, Cambridge University Press February 3, 2021
John Palmer's latest publication is a book in the Cambridge Elements in Ancient Philosophy series