Areas of interest:

epistemology

philosophy of religion

metaphysics (especially the nature of events, actions, and causation)

Thomas Reid

animal rights

Current research on:

the role of personal and doxastic epistemic justification in the theory of knowledge; rational belief in the absence of reasons; and human obligations toward nonhuman animals.

Representative publications:

“Internalism, the Gettier Problem, and Metaepistemological Skepticism,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, v. 60 (2000)

“The Possibility of Maximal Greatness Examined: A Critique of Plantinga’s Modal Ontological Argument,” Acta Analytica, no. 19 (1997)

“Coarsening Brand on Events, While Proliferating Davidsonian Events,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, v. 47 (1994)

“The Problem of Other Minds: A Reliable Solution,” Acta Analytica, no. 11 (1993)

“Is Epistemic Luck Compatible with Knowledge?”, Southern Journal of Philosophy, v. XXX, no. 2 (1992)

“Personal and Doxastic Justification in Epistemology,” Philosophical Studies, v. 67 (1992)

“Russellizing Russell: A Reply to His 'A Critique of Lehrer's Coherentism',” Philosophical Studies, v. 66 (1992)

“Inconsistency: The Coherence Theorist's Nemesis,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, v. 40 (1991)

“Coherentism Reliabilized,” Acta Analytica (1986)

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