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A Few Papers

I work mainly on epistemology. At the moment, I'm exploring a distinction between belief and acceptance. A couple papers are below.

1. Knowledge and Acceptance: Suppose you believe p. Suppose you also believe that the evidence overwhelmingly supports not-p and so decide to reason with not-p as a premise. I claim that such a decision can put one in the dispositional state of _accepting_ that not-p. Borrowing from recent empirical psychology, this paper draws a new distinction between belief and acceptance and explores some epistemological implications. [Draft coming soon.]
2. Sosa’s Dream: (PDF; with Nathan Ballantyne; forthcoming in Phil Studies) Ernest Sosa has lately posed a new skeptical problem and a solution. Setting out a novel account of dreaming, Sosa worries that “the possibility that we dream now threatens not only our supposed perceptual knowledge but even our supposed introspective knowledge, our supposed takings of the given” (2007: 9). In this paper, we outline Sosa’s dream argument and evaluate his solution.