Research



Published:

[2012]: "Virtual Worlds and Moral Evaluation", Ethics & Information Technology, 14: 255-265. (penultimate draft)
Consider the multi-user virtual worlds of online games such as EVE and World of Warcraft, or the multi-user virtual world of Second Life. Suppose a player performs an action in one of these worlds, via his or her virtual character, which would be wrong, if the virtual world were real. What is the moral status of this virtual action? In this paper I consider this question.

[2012]: "Reliabilism: Holistic or Simple", Episteme, 9: 225-233. (penultimate draft)
In "What Is Justified Belief?" Alvin Goldman proposed a simple form of reliabilism about justification. In Epistemology and Cognition, Goldman offered a more complicated version of reliabilism, which he has endorsed as superior to the simple version. In this paper I clarify both versions of reliabilism, and argue that the simpler model is preferable.

[2012]: "Evidential Externalism", Philosophical Studies, 158: 435-455. (penultimate draft)
When and under what conditions is a proposition P evidence for some agent A? Nicholas Silins has recently argued that any answer must be a version of Evidential Internalism: necessarily, if A and B are internal twins, then A and B have the same evidence. I argue against this and draw some conclusions about evidence.

[2011]: "Fried Eggs, Thermodynamics, and the Special Sciences", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 62: 71-98. (penultimate draft)
Adam Elga presents a problem for Lewis's account of the truth-conditions of counterfactuals. This paper offers a Lewisian response, making key use of special science laws.

[2008]: "The Obscure Act of Perception", Philosophical Studies, 139: 367-393.
Mark Johnston offers a direct realist account of hallucination. I argue that it is either not a direct realist account or that it does not sufficiently take account of hallucination.


Dissertation:
[2010]: "Bayesian Epistemology and Having Evidence"
Ch. 1    Bayesian Epistemology and 'Ought'-Implies-'Can'
Ch. 2    Evidence: Internal and External
Ch. 3    A Reliabilist Account of Evidence (RAE)
Ch. 4    Defending and Modifying RAE
Ch. 5    Losing Evidence
Ch. 6    Dutch Books and Certain Loss
Ch. 7    Evidence and Dissociation








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