Robert Beddor, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dr. Robert Beddor is a professor of philosophy at the University of Florida and a specialist in epistemology (aka theory of knowledge)

Currently Teaching
  • PHI 3300 Theory of Knowledge
  • PHI 5935 Proseminar
Office Hours
  • Thursdays 10:45am–12:45pm
  • By appointment
Areas of Specialization
  • Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaethics
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications
  • Reliabilism and its Rivals, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements Series), 2026
  • “Inclusive Inquiry” (w. Finnur Dellsén), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming
  • “Moral Justification”, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, forthcoming
  • “Moorean Promises,” Ethics 135(3): 395-427, 2025
  • “Unsettled Belief,” The Philosophical Quarterly 75(3): 834-857, 2025
  • "Inquiry Beyond Knowledge," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 109(1): 330-356, 2025
  • "Prospects for Evidentialism," in Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evidence Routledge, 2024
  • "Noncognitivism Without Expressivism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 107(3): 726-788, 2023.
  • "Epistemic Luck, Knowledge-How, and Intentional Action," (w. Carlotta Pavese & Paul Henne), Ergo, 10(36): 1019-1056, 2023
  • "Evidence, Justification and Truth,", Analysis, 83(3): 616-626, 2023
  • "A Question-Sensitive Theory of Intention," (w. Simon Goldstein), The Philosophical Quarterly 73(2): 46–378, 2023
  • "Skills as Knowledge," (w. Carlotta Pavese), Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 101(3): 609-624, 2023
  • "Practical Knowledge Without Luminosity," (w. Carlotta Pavese), Mind 131(523):919-936, 2022
  • "Shifty Evidence and Shifty Books,", Analysis 81 (2): 193-198, 2021
  • "Reasons for Reliabilism," in Reasons, Justification, and Defeat Oxford University Press, 2021
  • "Reliabilist Epistemology," (w. Alvin Goldman) in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2021
  • "Moral and Epistemic Evaluations: A Unified Treatment,", Philosophical Perspectives 35 (1): 23-49, 2021
  • "Mighty Knowledge," (w. Simon Goldstein), The Journal of Philosophy 118 (5): 229-269, 2021
  • "New Work for Certainty,", Philosophers’ Imprint 20 (8): 1-25, 2020
  • "Certainty in Action,", The Philosophical Quarterly 70 (281): 711-737, 2020
  • "Fallibility for Expressivists,", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (4): 763-777, 2020
  • "A Solution to the Many Attitudes Problem,", Philosophical Studies 177 (9): 2789-2813, 2020
  • "Modal Virtue Epistemology," (w. Carlotta Pavese), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 101 (1): 61-79, 2020
  • "Subjective Disagreement,", Noûs 53 (4): 819-851, 2019
  • "The Toxin and the Dogmatist,", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (4): 727-740, 2019
  • "Noncognitivism and Epistemic Evaluations,", Philosophers’ Imprint 19 (10): 1-27, 2019
  • "Relativism and Expressivism," in Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Relativism Routledge, 2019
  • "Might Do Better: Flexible Relativism and the QUD," (w. Andy Egan), Semantics and Pragmatics 11 (7): 1-43, 2018
  • "Believing Epistemic Contradictions," (w. Simon Goldstein), Review of Symbolic Logic 11 (1): 87-114, 2018
  • "Justification as Faultlessness,", Philosophical Studies 174 (4): 901-926, 2017
  • "Process Reliabilism’s Troubles with Defeat,", The Philosophical Quarterly 65 (259): 145-159, 2015
  • "Evidentialism, Circularity, and Grounding,", Philosophical Studies 172 (7): 1847-1868, 2015