I'm a philosopher with interests in epistemology, mind and language. Recently, I've been exploring what it means to be reasonable, and the role of reasonableness in knowledge. I've also written about self-knowledge, belief, ordinary language philosophy, and confusion.
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selected papers

Reasonableness

"A geneaology of reasonableness" (Mind)
"Knowledge and reasonableness" (Synthese)

“Impersonal epistemic standards” (in Skeptical Invariantism Reconsidered)

Knowledge, self-knowledge, belief

“Modest foundations for perceptual knowledge” forthcoming in New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure

“Moore’s paradox” (with John Perry) Australasian Journal of Philosophy

“Knowing what one wants” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

“Self-knowledge of belief: seeking causes” American Imago

“Exploring the stability of belief: resiliency and temptation” Inquiry

Austin, metaphilosophy

Commonsense and ordinary language: Wittgenstein and Austin
in The Cambridge Companion to Commonsense Philosophy

“Austin on perception, knowledge and meaning” in Interpreting Austin

“Ordinary language philosophy needs situation semantics (Or, why Grice needs Austin)” in Context, Truth and Objectivity: Essays on Radical Contextualism

Confusion, coreference

“Varieties of Coreference” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

“Confused Thought and Modes of Presentation” The Philosophical Quarterly

“A Notional Worlds Approach to Confusion” Mind and Language

books

New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts in Studies in Philosophy, Robert Nozick, ed.. Garland Publishing, Inc. New York, NY, 2001

Oxford University Press, 2013


selected reviews

Review of Knowledge First? by Aidan McGlynn Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

“Telling as joint action” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research symposium on Richard Moran’s Exchange of Words

Review of What is the Point of Knowledge? by Michael Hannon Analysis

contact

klawlor at stanford.edu

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