Silver Professor of Philosophy;
Ph.D., Princeton, 1987

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Research Interests:

philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology

Selected Works:

Books:

• Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism, Oxford University Press, 2006, reprinted in Italian as Paura di Conoscere, Carocci, Rome, 2006.
• New Essays on the A Priori, (edited, with Christopher Peacocke), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
• Content and Justification: Philosophical Essays, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2007.

Selected Articles:

• "Blind Rule-Following," forthcoming in Mind, Meaning and Knowledge: Essays for Crispin Wright Volume I, ed. Annalisa Coliva (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
• "What is Relativism?" in P. Greenough and M. Lynch (eds.), Truth and Realism, Oxford University Press, 2006.
• "Explaining Musical Experience," in Kathleen Stock (ed.): Philosophers on Music, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2006.
• "Is Meaning Normative?" in Christian Nimtz and Ansgar Beckermann (eds.): Philosophy - Science - Scientific Philosophy. Main Lectures and Colloquia of GAP.5, Fifth International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Bielefeld, 2003, Mentis, 2005.  
• "Blind Reasoning," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, no. 77, 2003, pp. 225–248.  
• "Epistemic Analyticity: A Defense," Grazer Philosophische Studien, vol. 66, 2003, pp. 15–35.
• "On Hearing the Music in the Sound," in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (2002).
• "How Are Objective Epistemic Reasons Possible?" in Philosophical Studies, Dec 2001, pp. 340-380.
• "The Gospel of Relaxation," (review of Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club), The New Republic, September 2001
• "What is Social Construction?" in Times Literary Supplement, February 2001.
• "Knowledge of Logic," in New Essays on the A Priori, (Oxford: OUP, 2000).
• "What the Externalist Can Know A Priori," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 97, 1997, pp. 161-175.
• "Analyticity Reconsidered," Noûs, vol. 30, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 360-391.
• "The Transparency of Mental Content," Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 8, 1994, pp. 33-50.
• "Physicalist Theories of Color," (with David Velleman), Philosophical Review, vol. 100, no. 1, January 1991, pp. 67-106
• "Naturalizing Content," in Barry Loewer and Georges Rey (eds.): Meaning in Mind: Fodor and his Critics (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), pp. 65-86.
• "What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us," Times Literary Supplement, Dec. 13, 1996, pp. 13-14.
• "The Status of Content," The Philosophical Review, vol. 99, no. 2, April 1990, pp. 157-184.
• "Colour as a Secondary Quality," (with David Velleman), Mind, vol. 98, no. 389, January 1989, pp. 81-103.
• "Content and Self-Knowledge," Philosophical Topics, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring 1989, pp. 5-26.
• "The Rule-Following Considerations," Mind, vol. 98, no. 392, October 1989, pp. 507-549

Courses

Undergraduate

Topics in Language & Mind, Fall 2001
Topics in Metaphysics and Epistemology, Fall 2001
Topics in Language & Mind, Fall 1997

Graduate

Proseminar (with David Velleman), Fall 2006
Topics in Epistemology (with Paul Horwich), Spring 2006
Thesis Prep Seminar, Spring 2004
Thesis Prep Seminar, Fall 2003
Epistemology, Spring 2003
Research Seminar on Language and Mind: Meaning, Rules, & Justification, Spring 2002 (in conjunction with Paul Horwich)
Epistemology, Spring 2001 (in conjunction with Christopher Peacocke)
Research Seminar on Language and Mind: The Objectivity of Knowledge, Spring 199 (in conjunction with Stephen Schiffer)
Research Seminar on Language and Mind: Concepts, Spring 1998 (in conjunction with Ned Block)

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