Claudio de Almeida, PhD
Research Associate
Psycholinguistics & Cognition Lab
Department of Psychology
Concordia University, Montreal
E-mail: socratically@gmail.com
E-mail: socratically@gmail.com
All Reasoning Is Defeasible. Philosophia, 53: 783-801, 2025. Available from: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-025-00873-2
Testimony, Epistemic Cooptation, and Paradox. In Dos Santos, Bettina S., Pontel, Evandro & Tauchen, Jair (eds.) Aurora do cinquentenário filosófico do PPG Filosofia—PUCRS. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Editora Fundação Fênix, 2024, pp. 159-166. Open access. Available from: https://doi.org/10.36592/9786554601085 (Click on the button 'Abrir PDF' to download the volume, a 6MB load.) Chapter only (147 KB): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HuwoJfm6XLcpMB30O0UjoirvQasNwAxA/view?usp=sharing
The Benign/Malignant Distinction for False Premises. In Borges, R. and Schnee, I. (eds.) Illuminating Errors: New Essays on Knowledge from Non-Knowledge. New York: Routledge, 2023. Available from: https://www.routledge.com/Illuminating-Errors-New-Essays-on-Knowledge-from-Non-Knowledge/Borges-Schnee/p/book/9780367630423
Moore's Paradox Generalized, Theoria, 88(6), 1111-1127, 2022. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12427.
Epistemic Closure and Epistemological Optimism, Philosophia, 49 (1), 113-131, 2021, DOI: 10.1007/s11406-020-00206-5. Available from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-020-00206-5
Co-authored with J.R. Fett, Review of Federico Luzzi, Knowledge from Non-Knowledge: Inference, Testimony and Memory, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2019, Open access: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/knowledge-from-non-knowledge-inference-testimony-and-memory/.
Klein, Skepticism, Epistemic Closure, and Evidential Underdetermination. In Fitelson, B., Borges, R., and Braden, C. (eds.), Themes from Klein: Knowledge, Scepticism, and Justification, Synthese Library, Springer, 2019. Available from: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-04522-7
Epistemic Closure and Post-Gettier Epistemology of Reasoning. In Hetherington, S. (ed.), The Gettier Problem, Cambridge University Press, 2019. Available from: https://www.cambridge.org/br/universitypress/subjects/philosophy/epistemology-and-metaphysics/gettier-problem?format=PB
On Our Epistemological Debt to Moore and Russell. In Hetherington, S. and Valaris, M. (eds.), Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2018. Volume 4 of The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History. Available from: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/knowledge-in-contemporary-philosophy-9781474258784/
Knowledge, Benign Falsehoods, and the Gettier Problem. In Borges, R., De Almeida, C., and Klein, P. D. (eds.), Explaining Knowledge: New Essays on the Gettier Problem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Available from: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/explaining-knowledge-9780198724568?lang=en&cc=gb#
Stroud, Skepticism, and Knowledge-Claims, Sképsis, no. 14, 2016, pp. 40-56. Open access: http://philosophicalskepticism.org/skepsis/numero-14/
Co-authored with J. R. Fett, Defeasibility and Gettierization: A Reminder, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 94:1, 152-169, 2016, online 10 Feb. 2015, DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2015.1009127. Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048402.2015.1009127?journalCode=rajp20
Contextualism. In Audi, R. (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Pragmatic Encroachment. In Audi, R. (ed.), The Cambridge dictionary of philosophy, third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
G. E. Moore Shift. In Audi, R. (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Moore’s Paradox. In Audi, R. (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. (This is an extensively revised and enlarged version of my 1999 entry for the second edition of the dictionary.)
Epistemic closure, Skepticism and Defeasibility, Synthese (2012) 188: 197-215. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-011-9923-7.
Closure, Defeasibility and Conclusive Reasons, Acta Analytica 22.4, 2007.
Moorean Absurdity: an Epistemological Analysis. In Williams, J. N. and Green, M. (eds.), Moore’s Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and the First Person. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
What Moore’s Paradox Is About, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62.1, 2001.
Co-edited with Rodrigo Borges and Peter D. Klein, Explaining Knowledge: New Essays on the Gettier Problem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Co-edited with Stephen Hetherington, Topics in Contemporary Epistemology, a special issue of the journal Synthese, vol. 188, no. 2, 2012. DOI for the guest-editorial: 10.1007/s11229-011-9929-1.
Perspectives in Contemporary Epistemology, a special issue of the journal Veritas (PUCRS, Brazil), 2005. Open access: http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/veritas/ojs/index.php/veritas/issue/view/178. Contributors: Fred Adams, Jonathan Adler, Anthony Brueckner, Julio Cesar Burdzinski, Elvo Clemente, Earl Conee, Richard Feldman, Tito Alencar Flores, Stephen Hetherington, Peter Klein, Jonathan Kvanvig, Alexandre Meyer Luz, Felipe M. Müller, Roberto Hofmeister Pich, and Doris Olin.
Bloomsbury Publishing (as Editorial Board member for the series Bloomsbury Critical Introductions to Contemporary Epistemology)
Broadview Press
Cambridge University Press
Continuum Books
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Routledge
Acta Analytica
Analysis
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Erkenntnis
Journal of Philosophical Research
The Journal of Philosophy
Manuscrito (Brazil)
Philosophia (Springer)
Philosophical Studies
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Principia (Brazil)
Southern Journal of Philosophy
Synthese
Theoria (Wiley)
I’ve been lucky to have had some great teachers. In my formal education, these included Peter D. Klein and Roy Sorensen, my post-doctoral hosts at Rutgers University and New York University respectively, Nicholas Griffin, my Ph.D. supervisor at McMaster University, Douglas Odegard, my epistemology teacher at the Guelph-McMaster Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, and Luiz Henrique Lopes dos Santos, my M.A. supervisor at the University of São Paulo (Brazil).
Speakers at major conferences organized (or co-organized) by me: Fred Adams, Heather Battaly, Paul Boghossian, Anthony Brueckner, Otávio Bueno, Oswaldo Chateaubriand, David Christensen, Stewart Cohen, Juan Comesaña, Michael DePaul, Fred Dretske, Luiz Henrique Dutra, Mylan Engel, Paulo Faria, Richard Feldman, Tito Flores, Richard Foley, Gary Fuller, Richard Fumerton, Carl Ginet, Alvin Goldman, Nicholas Griffin, Stephen Hetherington (co-organizer of our 2010 conference), Risto Hilpinen, Paul Horwich, Thomas Kelly, Peter D. Klein, Jennifer Lackey, Keith Lehrer, Alexandre Meyer Luz, William Lycan, Brian McLaughlin, Adam Morton, Ram Neta, Erik Olsson, Roberto Pich, John Pollock, Ted Poston, Baron Reed, Sherrilyn Roush, Sarah Sawyer, Thomas Señor, Plinio Smith, David Sosa, Ernest Sosa (co-organizer of our 2004 conference), Matthias Steup, John N. Williams, and Michael Williams.
In my tenure (1992-2025) at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), where I was Professor of Philosophy, my work as a supervisor yielded 26 MAs and 20 PhDs. With the exception of three MAs in the philosophy of language – on theories of vagueness, theories of metaphor, and Grice’s theory of implicature – supervised dissertations and theses were in epistemology.
Some of my teachers, colleagues, and former PhD supervisees have generously (too generously!) contributed to a volume entitled Socratically: a festschrift in honor of Claudio de Almeida (Porto Alegre, Brazil: Edipucrs. 2021), edited by Eduardo Alves, J.R. Fett, and Kátia M. Etcheverry. The volume is downloadable here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1pQqL83RWimu1pNDML9Xyml5lfW1suCPF/view?usp=sharing
Contributors: Robert Audi, Agemir Bavaresco, Rodrigo Borges, Nythamar de Oliveira, Kátia M. Etcheverry, Paulo Estrella Faria, J.R. Fett, Gregory Gaboardi, Ricardo Rangel Guimarães, Stephen Hetherington, Peter D. Klein, Eduardo Luft, Alexandre Meyer Luz, Bernardo Peressoni Luz, Felipe Castelo Branco Medeiros, Felipe Miguel, Roberto S. Nitsche, Federico Orsini, Roberto Hofmeister Pich, Lucas Roisenberg Rodrigues, Tiegue V. Rodrigues, Luis Rosa, Carlos Augusto Sartori, Ernest Sosa, Emerson Carlos Valcarenghi, and John N. Williams.