About me I have been a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State University since the 2008-2009 year. My curriculum vitae [pdf] My teaching portfolio [pdf] I received my dissertation in Philosophy from The University of Iowa. The dissertation is about direct realist theories of perception and is entitled Real appearances: the metaphysics and epistemology of direct realism. My areas of specialization are epistemology and philosophy of perception. Within these areas, I am especially motivated by questions about our knowledge of the external world, foundationalism and coherentism, the given, internalism and externalism, attempts to naturalize epistemology, the objects and analysis of perception, skepticism and various strategies of response to skepticism (dogmatism, contextualism, relevant alternatives, denial of closure, accommodation, semantic and epistemological externalism). In the near future, I would like to investigate the intersection of epistemology and ethics, especially issues in virtue ethics, intellectual virtues, ethics of belief, social epistemology. I am also interested more generally in ethics (especially metaethics) and issues in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. I have an article that has recently appeared in Synthese: "Foundational beliefs and the structure of justification," Synthese 64, no 6 (September 2008), 117-139. Available online. | khobson [at] iastate [dot] edu kennethhobson [at] hotmail [dot] com kenneth [dash] hobson [at] uiowa [dot] edu Websites that redirect here http://www.public.iastate.edu/~khobson Philpapers profile Academia.edu profile |