Tomas Bogardus

I am a Professor of Philosophy at Pepperdine University. I work mainly in metaphysics and epistemology.

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Research

The Nature of the Sexes, Routledge (2025)

Fuentes on the Nature of the Sexes, Reality's Last Stand (September 2025)

Ashley on Gender Identity, written with Alex Byrne, Journal of Controversial Ideas (2024)

A Defense of Explanationism against Recent Objections, written with Will Perrin, Episteme (forthcoming)

Some Reluctant Skepticism about Rational Insight, written with Mike Burton, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism (2023)

If Naturalism is True, then Scientific Explanation is Impossible, Religious Studies (2023)

How Our Shoes can Help Explain the Biology of Sex, Reality's Last Stand (August 2022)

Why the Trans Inclusion Problem cannot be Solved, Philosophia (2022)

Knowledge is Believing Something Because It's True, written with Will Perrin, Episteme (2022)

Evaluating Arguments for the Sex/Gender Distinction, Philosophia (2020)

Some Internal Problems with Revisionary Gender Concepts, Philosophia (2020)

Gender's Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History, Quillette (2019)

How to Tell Whether Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God, written with Mallorie Urban, Faith and Philosophy (2017)

Only All Naturalists Should Worry about Only One Evolutionary Debunking Argument, Ethics (2016)

Review of Christensen&Lackey's Epistemology of Disagreement, written with Anna Brinkerhoff. Analysis (2015)

Review of Zagzebski's Epistemic Authority, written with Paige Massey. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (2014)

Yes, Safety is in Danger, written with Chad Marxen as a response to this essay. Philosophia (2014)

Knowledge under Threat. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2014)

The Problem of Contingency for Religious Belief, Faith and Philosophy (2013)

Undefeated Dualism, Philosophical Studies (2013)

Disagreeing with the (Religious) Skeptic, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (2013)

What Certainty Teaches, Philosophical Psychology (2012)

A Vindication of the Equal-Weight View, Episteme (2009)