The Epistemology Research Guide:
Subject Index
What follows are the links to 1,059 epistemology papers online organized loosely by subject. To keep updating manageable, each paper appears only under one subject heading. Please send comments, suggestions, or recommended links to Dr. Keith Korcz at keithk@louisiana.edu.
Last Modified: 4/14/08
Links are up to date as of 6/07.
Bealer, George.
"Origins of Modal Error"
"Theory of the A Priori"
"A Priori Knowledge and the Scope of Philosophy"
"On the Possibility of Philosophical Knowledge"
"A Priori Knowledge: Replies to Lycan and Sosa"
Beebe, James R.
"BonJour's Arguments Against Skepticism About the A Priori"Bergmann, Gustav
"Synthetic A Priori" (selection from Logic and Reality, 1967)Brewer, Bill.
"Externalism and A Priori Knowledge of Empirical Facts"
Broad, C. D.
"Are There Synthetic-A Priori Truths?"Brown, Jessica.
"The Incompatibility of Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access"Casullo, Albert (B).
"Epistemic Overdetermination and A Priori Justification"
Chalmers, David J.
"Does Conceivability Entail Possibility?"Conee, Earl.
"The Opacity of Self-Evidence"
Devitt, Michael.
"There Is No A Priori"
"Reply to BonJour"
"Naturalism and the A Priori"
"No Place for the A Priori"
"De Re A Priori Knowledge"
Dretske, Fred."The Mind's Awareness of Itself"Field, Hartry.
"Recent Debates About the A Priori"Gertler, Brie.
"We can't know a priori that H2O exists. But can we know that water does?"
Hales, Steven D.
"The Problem of Intuition"Gilbert Harman.
"Intuition, Revelation and Relativism"
"You Can Prove A Negative"
"The Future of the A Priori"Hawthorne, John."Externalism and A Priority"David Henderson.
"What is A Priori About Action?"Horgan, Terence. (see also Henderson, David)"The A Priori Isn't All That It Is Cracked Up To Be, But It Is Something" (w/ David Henderson)
Jackman, Henry."Deference and Self-Knowledge""Ordinary Language, Conventionalism and A Priori Knowledge"
"Semantic Pragmatism and A Priori Knowledge" (pdf format)
"Naturalism and the A Priori"Miscevic, Nenad.
"Deep and Superficial A Priori"Mosser, Kurt.
"Modelling Intuitions and Thought Experiments"
"Intuitions: The Discrete Voice of Competence"
"two chapters from book on Intuitions"
Bonjour, Kant and the A PrioriNuccetelli, Susanna"What Anti-Individualists Cannot Know A Priori"
"What Externalists Cannot Know A Priori"
Pryor, James.
"Indexicality and A Priority"Ross, Kelly.
"Externalism About Content and McKinsey-Style Reasoning"
"Hyper-Reliability and Apriority"
"More on Hyper-Reliability and Apriority"
"Externalism About Content and McKinsey-Style Reasoning"
"The Foundations Of Value, Part II"Schiffer, Stephen.
"Paradox and the A Priori"Sellars, Wilfrid.
"Is There A Synthetic A Priori?
Smith, Barry."In Defense of Extreme (Fallibilistic) Apriorism""Apriorism About Modality"Yablo, Stephen.
"Self-Knowledge and Semantic Luck"
Bealer, George.
"Analyticity"Bennett, Jonathan.
"Analytic-Synthetic"
"A Myth About Logical Necessity"
Boghossian, Paul."Analyticity Reconsidered"
"Epistemic Analyticity: A Defense"
"Analyticity and Katz's New Intensionalism: or, If You Sever Sense From Reference, Analyticity is Cheap But Useless"
Grice, H. P.
"In Defense of a Dogma" (w/Strawson)
Katz, Gerrold."Analyticity, Necessity and the Epistemology of Semantics"Kaye, Lawrence."How To Avoid Holism and Draw the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction"Lyons, Jack.
Montmnny, Martin.
"Analyticity and Translation"Peacocke, Christopher.
"Three Principles of Rationalism"
"Putnam on Synonymity and Belief"
"Quine's Two Dogmas"
Sullivan, Arthur.
"W. V. Quine on the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction"
"The Law of Excluded Middle is Synthetic-A Priori, If Valid"
"Flash! Fodor Splits the Atom"
Wikforss, Asa.
"A Posteriori Analyticity"
Wright, Wayne.
"Fodor's Epistemic Intuitions of Analyticity""Logical and Analytic Truths That are Not Necessary"
Korcz, Keith Allen.Back to Subjects"Recent Work On The Basing Relation"Kvanvig, Jonathan."Justification and Proper Basing""On Justifying and Being Justified"Wedgewood, Ralph.
"What the Basing Relation can Teach us about Epistemic Justification"
"The Normative Force of Reasoning"
Belief
Brown, Curtis."Direct and Indirect Belief""Learning From One's Mistakes: Epistemic Modesty and the Nature of Belief"Hales, Steven D.
"Self-Deception and Belief Attribution"Moffett, Marc.
"Knowing Facts and Believing Propositions: A Solution to the Problem of Doxastic Shift""Reasons and That-Clauses"
"Moore's Problem With Iterated Belief"Weatherson, Brian.
Zimmerman, Aaron.
"The Nature of Belief"
Back to Subjects
Coherence TheoriesFirth, Roderick."Coherence, Certainty and Epistemic Priority" (1964)David Henderson.
"One Naturalized Epistemological Argument Against Coherentist Accounts of Empirical Knowledge"
Huemer, Michael."Probability and Coherence Justification"
Kvanvig, Jonathan. (B)
"In Defense of Coherentism""Coherentist's Distractions"
Lammenronta, Markus."Circularity and Stability"Shogenji, Tomoji.
"Why Does Coherence Appear Truth Conducive?"
"The Role of Coherence of Evidence in the Non-Dynamic Model of Confirmation"
"Justification by Coherence From Scratch"
"The Problem of Independence in Justification By Coherence"
"The Role of Coherence in Epistemic Justification"
"Self-Dependent Justification Without Circularity"
Trenton Merricks"On Behalf of the Coherentist" - note: scroll down to get to Merricks' articleTruncellito, David."The Ultrasystem and the Conditional Fallacy""Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory"
Sosa, Ernest."Reflective Knowledge in the Best Circles"Steup, Matthias."The Problematic of Circularity and Epistemology Today" (zipped file)
"A Defense of Epistemic Circularity"
Thagard, Paul."Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction"Vineburg, Susan."Probabilistic Networks and Explanatory Coherence"
"Coherence: The Price is Right"
"Coherence and Epistemic Rationality"
Bishop, Michael.
"Why Thought Experiments are Not Arguments"Carnap, Rudolf.
"On Explication" - selection from "Logical Foundations of Probability"
Eagle, Anthony.
"Mathematics and Conceptual Analysis"
King, Jeffrey C."What Is A Philosophical Analysis?"Levine, Alexander."When Can Intuitions On Counterfactual Cases Be Trusted?" (1995)Lycan, William (B).
"Serious Metaphysics: Frank Jackson's Defense of Conceptual Analysis"
"Should We Trust Our Intuitions? Deflationary Accounts of the Analytic Data"
"Concepts and Conceptual Analysis"
Miscevic, Nenad.
"Rescuing Conceptual Analysis"
"Epistemic Intuitions"
Sacks, Mark.
"The Nature of Transcendental Arguments"
Schroeter, Laura.
"The Limits of Conceptual Analysis"
Stavrinides, Zenon."Roderick Chisholm and the Problem of the Criterion"Stich, Stephen.
Bergmann, Michael.
"Bonjour's Dilemma"Bird, Alexander.
"Is Klein An Infinitist About Doxastic Justification?"
"Epistemic Circularity and Common Sense: A Reply to Reed"
"Review of Richard Swinburne's Epistemic Justification"
"Nozick's Fourth Condition""Precis of Perception and Reason & Response to Commentator"
"Review of Michael Tye's Consciousness, Color and Content"
"Stroud's Quest for Reality"
"Spin Control: Comment on John McDowell's Mind and World"
"Casullo on A Priori Justification"Casullo, Albert (B).
"Knowledge, Truth and Unthinkability" (re: Butchavrov)
Review of William P. Alston's Beyond Justification
"Review of Jonathan Kvanvig's The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding"
Review of Ernest Sosa and Laurence BonJour, Epistemic Justification
Review of Richard Swinburne, Epistemic Justification"Goldman on Probabilistic Inference"
Foley, Richard (PB)"Critical Study of John Hawthorne's Knowledge and Lotteries"
Gellman, Jerome.
"A New Gettier-Type Refutation of Nozick's Analysis of Knowledge"
Greco, John (B).
Grimm, Stephen.Worries about Pritchard's Safety
Review of Jonathan Kvanvig's The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding"
Harman, Gilbert.
Hill, Christopher.
"Hawthorne's Lottery Puzzle and the Nature of Belief"
"Goldman on Introspection"
Jenkins, Carrie.
"Boghossian and Epistemic Analyticity"
Kvanvig, Jonathan."Zagzebski on Justification""Plantinga's Proper Function Theory of Warrant"
"A Critique of Van Fraassen's Voluntaristic Epistemology"
"Review of James Montmarquet's Epistemic Virtue and Doxastic Responsibility"
"Nozickian Epistemology and the Value of Knowledge" (pdf)"Nozickian Epistemology and the Question of Closure" (pdf)
"Critical Notice of Pritchard's Epistemic Luck"
"Critical Review of Duncan Pritchard's Epistemic Luck"
MacBain, James.
"Epistemic Analysis and the Possibility of Good Informants"
(re: Craig)"Boghossian on Analyticity"
McGrath, Matthew.
"Review of John Hawthorne's Knowledge and Lotteries"Morton, Adam.
"Review of John Hawthorne's Knowledge and Lotteries"Review of Richard Foley, Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others
"Williamson on Scepticism and Rationality"Post, John F.
"Sic Transitivity: Reply to McGrew and McGrew"Critical Notice of Justification Without Awareness by Michael Bergmann
"Accidentally Factive Mental States" (Williamson)
Review of Eric Olsson, Against Coherence: Truth, Probability and Justification
"Is Every Truth Knowable? Reply to Williamson"
"Review of John Pollock and Joseph Cruz, Contemporary Theories of Knowledge"
Williamson, Timothy.Back to Subjects
"Symposium on Knowledge and its Limits"Zimmerman, Aaron.
Review of Paul Boghossian's Fear of Knowledge
"Should the Empiricist Be a Constructive Empiricist?"
"The NOAer's Dilemma: Constructive Empiricism and the Natural Ontological Attitude"
"Seeing the Unobservable: van Fraassen and the Limits of Experience"
"Constructive Empiricism and Epistemic Modesty"
"Empiricism Naturalized"
Aune, Bruce."Against Moderate Rationalism" [in pdf format - scroll down on his page and click title to download]Bealer, George.
"Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance"Carnap, Rudolf.
"The Incoherence of Empiricism"
"Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology"Casullo, Albert (B).
Gregory, Paul A.
"Putting the Bite Back Into Two Dogmas"Grimm, Robert H.
"A Note on "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"Hempel, Carl."Problems and Changes in the Empiricist Criterion of Meaning." (1950)Millikan, Ruth Garrett."How We Make Our Ideas Clear: Empiricist Epistemology for Empirical Concepts"Morlock, Vanessa.
"The Rationalist's Dilemma"
"The Empiricist Conception of Experience"
"Three Principles of Rationalism"Quine, W. V. O.
"Two Dogmas of Empiricism"Sellars, Wilfrid."Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"Swartz, Norman.Robert Grimm. "A Note On Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"
"The Obdurate Persistence of Rationalism"Van Fraasen, Bas C."Against Transcendental Empiricism""Sola Experientia? - Feyerabend's Refutation of Classical Empiricism" (automatically downloads in Word Perfect)
Ethics of Belief/ Epistemic Goal/ Epistemic Value
Brogaard, Berit.
"The Trivial Argument for Epistemic Value Pluralism, Or How I Learned to Stop Caring About Truths"
"Can Virtue Reliabilism Explain the Value of Knowledge?"Broome, John."Normative Requirements" (pdf)
Clifford, William K.
"The Ethics of Belief""Epistemic Value Theory and Social Epistemology"
Feldman, Richard.
Clifford's Principle and James's Options"
"Epistemic Normativity"
"Epistemic Goals and Epistemic Values"
David Henderson.
"Rethinking The Connection Between Truth-Conducivity and Justification"Jenkins, Carrie.
"Epistemic Norms and Natural Facts""Why Do We Value Knowledge?"
"Consensus and Excellence of Reasons"
Kvanvig, Jonathan.
"The Value of Knowledge and Truth""The Connection to Truth""Does Belief Have An Aim?"
"Knowledge, Understanding and Epistemic Value"
"Reliability and the Value of Knowledge"Sosa, Ernest.
"Understanding 'Virtue' and the Virtue of Understanding"
"Beyond Truth and Falsehood: The Real Value of Knowing that p"
"Balancing Our Epistemic Ends"
"The Value Turn in Epistemology"
Steup, Matthias.
"Doxastic Freedom"van Inwagen, Peter.
Is It Wrong, Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone, to Believe Anything On Insufficient Evidence?Wedgewood, Ralph.
"The Aim Of Belief"Back to Subjects"The Practical Importance of Knowledge (Such As It Is)"
"Why Does Justification Matter?"
Chandler, Jake.
"Belief and Its Warrant: A Darwinian Perspective"
"The Evolution of Knowledge"
Back to Subjects
Bird, Alexander.Back to Subjects
"Abductive Knowledge and Holmsian Inference"Franceschi, Paul.
"Inference to the Only Explanation"
"The Doomsday Argument and Hempel's Problem"Jenkins, Carrie.
"Knowledge and Explanation"Lycan, William.
"Explanation and Epistemology"Mulder, Dwayne."Explanation, Understanding and Subjectivity"
Fallibilism/Infallibilism
Boardman, William S."Queer Modal Arguments" (For Infallibilism)"Fallibilism, Epistemic Possibility and Concessive Knowledge Attributions"
"Is Fallibility an Epistemological Shortcoming?"Reed, Baron.
"How to Think About Fallibilism"
Sanders, Andy F."Dogmatism, Fallibilism and Truth: A Polanyian Puzzle"Warenski, Lisa.
"Naturalism, Fallibilism and the A Priori"
Webb, Mark Owen."The Problem of the Kentucky-Fried Rat"
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Foundationalism
Bergmann, Michael."What's NOT Wrong With Foundationalism"BonJour, Laurence (B).
selection on foundationalism from The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
Cruz, Joseph.(the following are in pdf - scroll down on his page for the link:)"Epistemic Norms and the Sellarsian Dilemma for Foundationalism"
"New Foundations for Epistemic Change"
Harman, Gilbert.
"Foundational Beliefs and the Structure of Justification"
"Bonjour's Basic Anti-foundationalist Argument"Jackman, Henry."An 'Unintelligbile Idea': Donald Davidson's Case Against Experiential Foundationalism"
"On a Fatal Dilemma for Moderate Foundationalism"
"Keith Lehrer's Case Against Foundationalism"
"Foundationalism and Arbitrariness"
"Three Arguments Against Foundationalism: Arbitrariness, Epistemic Regress and Existential Support"
"Foundationalism, Coherentism and Rule-Following Skepticism"
Klein, Peter D."Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons"Kvanvig, Jonathan."The Confusion Over Foundationalism""A Localist Solution to the Regress of Epistemic Justification"McGrew, Timothy.
"A Reconsideration of Foundationalism's 'Basic Beliefs'"
"Foundationalism, Probability and Mutual Support"Post, John F.
"A Defense of Strong Foundationalism"
Chapter One of The Foundations of Knowledge
"Minimal Epistemology: Beyond Terminal Philosophy to Truth"Remedios, Francis."The Foundationalist Justification Of Epistemic Principles" (1990)Steup, Matthias."Foundationalism, Sense-Experiential Content and Sellar's Dilemma"
"Internalist Foundationalism and the Problem of the Epistemic Regress"
"Felix Culpa: Luck in Ethics and Epistemology"Bach, Kent.
"Accidental Truth and Would-Be Knowledge"Chignell, Andrew.
"Accidentally True Belief and Warrant"Coffman, E J.
"Old Dog Does New Tricks"
Floridi, Luciano.Foley, Richard."On The Logical Insolvability of the Gettier Problem" (pdf)
"What Must Be Added to True Belief to Have Knowledge? Answer: More True Beliefs"
Gettier, Edmund."Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" (1963)
Howard-Snyder, Daniel."Infallibilism and Gettier's Legacy"Huemer, Michael."The Problem of Defeasible Justification"Kvanvig, Jonathan (B)
"On Denying A Presupposition of Sellars Problem: A Defense of Propositionalism"Luper, Steven.
Lycan, William (B).
"On the Gettier Problem Problem"
"Accidental Truth and Accidental Justification"
"Why Epistemologists are so Down on Their Luck"
Neta, Ram.
"Defeating the Dogma of Defeasibility"
Given, The / Sense-Data
(see also Perception)Alston, William."Sellars and the Myth of the Given" (1998)Bermudez, Jose Luis.
Chrucky, Andrew."The Alleged Fallacy of the Sense-Datum Inference"Echelberger, Charles."Critique of Wilfris Sellars' Materialism (Ph. D. Dissertation)
"Sellars on Thinking and the Myth of the Given"Firth, Roderick."An Alleged Legend"- about the Myth of the Given.
"Sense Data and the Percept Theory" (1949-1950)Floridi, Luciano."The Renaissance of Epistemology: 1914-1945" (pdf)
Hoy, Ronald C."The Given and the Self-Presenting" (1985)Lewis, C. I.Chapter Two from Mind and the World Order (1941)Sosa, Ernest.
"The Given Element in Empirical Knowledge"
"Knowledge, Animal and Reflective: A Reply to Michael Williams"Vinci, Thomas."The Myth of the Myth of the Given"
Franceschi, Paul."A Solution to Goodman's Paradox"
Harman, Gilbert.
"Inductive Simplicity and the Matrix"
"The Problem of Induction"
Huemer, Michael.
"Confirmation Theory: A Metaphysical Approach"McGrew, Timothy.
"Explanation and Inductive Logic"
"Direct Inference and the Problem of Induction"Sankey, Howard.
"Induction and Natural Kinds"
Schechter, Joshua.
"Meaning and Justification: The Case of Modus Ponens"
"How are Basic Belief Forming Methods Justified?"
Schulte, Oliver (B).
"Logically Reliable Inductive Inference"Sorensen, Roy.
"Infinite Backward Induction Arguments"
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Internalism/Externalism"Who's Afraid of Epistemology's Regress Problem?"
"Modest Evidentialism"
"Contrastive Self-Attrribution of Belief"
"Evidentialism for Everyone"
"Knowledge Externalism"
Bach, Kent."A Rationale For Reliabilism"Beebe, James R.
"Reliabilism and New Perceptual Faculties"
"The Generality Problem, Statistical Relevance and the Tri-Level Hypothesis"
"Reliabilism and Anti-Realist Theories fo Truth"
"Reliabilism and Deflationism"
Bergmann, Michael.
Bernecker, Sven.
"Agent Reliabilism and the Problem of Clairvoyance"
"In Praise of Epistemic Irresponsibility: How Lazy and Ignorant Can You Be?"
Boghossian, Paul."What The Externalist Can Know A Priori"
"Blind Reasoning"
"Three Notions of Tacit Knowledge"Coffman, E J.
"Defending Doxastic Evidence Dualism"
"Warrant Without Truth?"
"Assertion, Knowledge and Justification"
Comesena, Juan.
"A Well-Founded Solution to the Generality Problem"
"We Are (Almost) All Externalists Now"
"The Diagonal and the Demon"
Cruz, Joseph."The Chimerical Appeal of Epistemic Externalism" (pdf - scroll down on his page for the link)DeRose, Keith.
"Ought We To Follow Our Evidence?"
"Personhood and Future Belief: Two New Arguments For Reflection"Feldman, Richard.
"Internalism Defended" - co-authored with Earl ConeeFoley, Richard (PB)
"Universal Intellectual Trust"
"A Trial Separation Between the Theory of Knowledge and the Theory of Justification"
"Justified Belief as Responsible Belief"
"Conceptual Diversity in Epistemology"
"Epistemic Rationality as Invulnerability to Self-Criticism"
"The Foundational Role of Epistemology in a General Theory of Rationality"
Gilbert Harman."Epistemicism"Greco, John (B).
"On Denying A Presupposition of Sellars Problem: A Defense of Propositionalism"
"Propositionalism and the Perspectival Character of Justification""Why We Don't Deserve Credit For Everything We Know"
"Epistemological Externalism and the Project of Traditional Epistemology"Luper, Steven.
"Believing One's Reasons Are Good"
Lyons, Jack.
"Experience, Evidence and Externalism"Montmarquet, James.
"Virtue and Voluntarism"
"Pure vs. Practical Justification"
Nagasawa, Yujin."Externalism and the Memory Argument"Neta, Ram.Nickel, Philip J."Propositional Justification, Evidence and the Cost of Error"
"Voluntary Belief on a Reasonable Basis"
Pollock, John L."Defeasible Reasoning with Variable Degrees of Justification" - downloads in pdf
Reed, Baron.
"Epistemic Agency and the Intellectual Virtues"
Riggs, Wayne D.
"The Weakness of Strong Justification"Schechter, Joshua.
"Hawthorne's Lottery Puzzle and the Nature of Belief"
Sider, Ted."Sorenson on Unknowable Obligations"Sorensen, Roy."Unknowable Obligations"Sosa, Ernest.
"Goldman's Reliabilism and Virtue Epistemology""Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Deontology" (pdf format)Tye, Michael.
"Externalism and Memory"Weatherson, Brian."Is Content Externalism Compatible With Privileged Access"
(with Brian McLaughlin)
Wedgewood, Ralph.
"Internalism Explained"Williamson, Timothy
Zalabardo, Jose.
"Externalism, Skepticism and the Problem of Easy Knowledge"
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KnowledgeBach, Kent.
"Knowledge In And Out Of Context"
Bird, Alexander.
"Unsafe Knowledge"
Greco, John.
Hawley, Catherine.
"Success and Knowledge How"
"False Knowledge"King, Jeffrey C.
"The Myth of Factive Verbs"
"What Is A Philosophical Analysis?"
Kvanvig, Jonathan (B)
"On Williamson's Arguments that Knowledge is a Mental State"
McGrath, Matthew.
"Evidence, Pragmatics and Justification"Moffett, Marc.
"Knowledge and the Purely Epistemic: A Defense of Pragmatic Encroachment"