Philosophy

Dr. Borges is Assistant Instructional Professor in Philosophy. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University. He works mainly in epistemology, but also has interests in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and in the history of philosophy (especially Plato and Descartes). Dr. Borges is currently pursuing the research project Knowledge and Reasoning. The goal is to produce new insights into the role of knowledge in theoretical reasoning. The project is ambitious and it involves traditional and formal epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and psychology.

Edited Volumes

• Illuminating Errors: New essays on Knowledge from Non-Knowledge (forthcoming in Studies in Epistemology Series, Routledge). Co-edited with Ian Schnee.
• Knowledge and Justification: New Perspectives. Special Issue of Synthese (2021).
• Knowledge, Scepticism, and Defeat: Themes from Klein. Co-edited with Branden Fitelson and Cherrie Braden. Synthese Library. 2019.
• Explaining Knowledge: New Essays on the Gettier Problem. Co-edited with Claudio de Almeida and Peter Klein. Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Manuscrito 40.4 (2017) Special issue on Epistemology, Guest Editor.

Publications

• "The Diachronic Threshold Problem" in Philosophical Studies, 179, 93-108, 2022.
• "Defeating Objections to Group Knowledge" in Festschrift for Claudio de Almeida, 2021.
• "Knowledge from Knowledge" in American Philosophical Quarterly, 57:3, 283-97, 2020.
• "The Gettier Problem and Externalism" in The Gettier Problem,  S. Hetherington (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• "Knowledge, Despite Evidence to the Contrary" in Themes from Klein: Knowledge, Scepticism, and Justification. Fitelson, Borges and Braden (eds.). Springer, 2019.
• "Inferential Knowledge and The Gettier Conjecture" in Explaining Knowledge: New Essays on the Gettier Problem, Rodrigo Borges, Claudio de Almeida and Peter Klein (eds). Oxford University Press, 2017.
• "E=K and the Gettier Problem: A Reply to Comesaña and Kantin" in Erkenntnis 82.5 (2017) 1031-1041.
• "On Pritchard's Epistemic Angst", Manuscrito, 2017.
• "Unreasonable Selflessness," with Felipe Medeiros, Veritas 61.3 (2016) 492-502.
• "Bad Luck for the Anti-Luck Epistemologist", Southern Journal of Philosophy 54.4 (2016) 463-479.
• "A Failed Twist to an Old Problem: A Reply to John N. Williams" in Logos and Episteme VII.1 (2016) 75-81.
• "On Synchronic Dogmatism" in Synthese 192.11 (2015) 3677-3693.
• Knowledge from Knowledge: An Essay on Inferential Knowledge. Ph.D. Dissertation, Rutgers Universsity, 2015.
• "How to Moore a Gettier: Notes on the Dark Side of Knowledge" in Logos and Episteme 5.2 (2014) 133-140.

Presentations

• "Knowledge: A Lifetime Commitment."
  • East Carolina University, 2018.
  • Workshop on Probability, Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil, 2017.
• "Y.O.K.O." East Carolina University, public lecture, 2018.
• "Knowledge, Despite Evidence to the Contrary." Epistemology Colloquium, Pontifical Catholic University, 2017.
• "Knowledge and Certainty." Philosophy Club, East Carolina University, 2017.
• "A Knowledge First Account of Defeasible Reasoning." Meeting of the National Association of Graduate Programs in Philosophy, 2016.
• "The Knowledge Norm of Inference." Academic Week of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University, 2016.
• "Defeating Objections to Group Knowledge." Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Conference, New Brunswick, 2016.
• "Knowledge from Knowledge."
  • Florida Philosophical Association, Tampa, FL, 2014.
  • Indiana Philosophical Association, Lafayette, IN, 2014.
  • Graduate Epistemology Conference, Univ Rochester, 2014.
• Remarks on Brendan Murday's "On Klein's Argument for Infinitism", Central States Philosophical Association, Evanston, IL, 2014.
• "Inferential Knowledge and the Gettier Problem." Epistemology reading group, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 2013.
• "Selfless Assertions and Moore's Paradox." Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, 2012.