Work in Progress

"Epistemic Dilemmas and Inquiry"

"Inquiry and Encroachment"

"It's OK Just To believe AI"

"Conversations with Claude"

"Borrowed Wealth and Fairy Money"


2023

"I hate cyclists!"

Blog post: Open for Debate, 21 August 2023.

"On the Nature of Faith and Its Relation to Trust and Belief"

The Monist - https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onac023

2022

"Collective and Extended Knowledge"

Philosophical Issues - https://doi.org/10.1111/phis.12231

"Communicating Your Point of View"

European Journal of Philosophy - https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12670

2021

"The Presumption of Assurance"

Synthese - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03074-y

"Lockdown: A Case Study in How to Lose Trust and Undermine Compliance"

Global Discourse - https://doi.org/10.1332/204378921X16106635782045

2020

"Testimony and Trust"

Judith Simon ed. The Routledge Handbook on Trust and Philosophy (Routledge)

"Fiduciary Reasons and Grounds"

Miller and Harding eds. Fiduciaries and Trust: ethics, politics, economics and law (CUP)

2019

"The Nature and Rationality of Conversion"

European Journal of Philosophy - https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12472

"What are we doing when we are training?"

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy -  https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2019.1572215

"Indirect Communication, Authority, and Proclamation as a Normative Power: Løgstrup’s Critique of Kierkegaard "

Co-authored with R.Stern and C.Bennett, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 40/1, 147-182.

2018

"Finding Trust in Government"

Journal of Social Philosophy - https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12262

"Fake Barns, Fake News"

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective - https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3Y4

“Collective Testimony, Collective Knowledge”

Ergo - https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.004

“Giving the Benefit of the Doubt”

International Journal of Philosophical Studies - https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2018.1440952

(Winner of the Robert Papazian Annual Essay Prize)

2017

“Is Taxation of a Par with Forced Labour?”

Peeters and et al eds. Building Trust in Taxation (Intersentia)

“The Problem of Trust”

Faulkner and Simpson eds. The Philosophy of Trust (OUP)

2016

“Trust and the Radical Ethical Demand”

Fink and Stern eds. What is Ethically Demanded? K. E. Løgstrup’s Philosophy of Moral Life (University of Notre Dame Press)

“Agency and Disagreement”

Reider ed. Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: Decentralizing the Epistemic Agent (Rowman Littlefield)

2015

“The Attitude of Trust is Basic”

Analysis, 75/3, 424-429.

2014

“A Virtue Theory of Testimony”

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 114/2, 189-212.

“The Moral Obligations of Trust”

Philosophical Explorations, 17/3, 332-345.

“The Practical Rationality of Trust”

Synthese, 191, 1975-1989.

2013

“Lies and Deceit”

LaFollette ed., International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Blackwell)

“Two-Stage Reliabilism, Virtue Reliabilism, Dualism and the Problem of Sufficiency”

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective Special Issue 2, 2/8, 121-138.

“Really Trying or Merely Trying”

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 41/3, 363-380.

2012

“Précis of Knowledge on Trust”

Abstracta, Special Issue 6, 4-5 (An issue devoted to my monograph Knowledge on Trust.)

“Replies to Commentators”

Abstracta, Special Issue 6, 117-137

2010

“Norms of Trust”

Millar et al eds. Social Epistemology (OUP)

2007

“A Genealogy of Trust”

Episteme, 4/3, 305-321.

“What is Wrong with Lying?”

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 75/3, 535-557.

“On Telling and Trusting”

Mind, 116/464, 875-902.

2006

“On Dreaming and Being Lied to”

Episteme, 2/3, 149-160.

“Understanding Knowledge Transmission”

Ratio, 19/2, 156-175.

2004

“Relativism and Our Warrant for Scientific Theories”

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 12/3, 259-270.

2002

“On the Rationality of Our Response to Testimony”

Synthese, 131/3, 353-370.

2000

“The Social Character of Testimonial Knowledge”

The Journal of Philosophy, 97/11, 581-601.

1998

“David Hume’s Reductionist Epistemology of Testimony”

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 79/4, 302-313.