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Welcome to my website. I am Professor and Faculty Head of Philosophy at Arizona State University (Tempe Campus). I have a PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University and a BS in Mathematics from Tufts University.
I have published on a variety of topics but mostly in Epistemology, Philosophy of Language and Experimental Philosophy. Links to this work appear below.
I am a co-editor (with Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols) of the Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy book series.
I am currently involved in an interdisciplinary project which aims to show how philosophical training can bring out humility in inquiry--thus helping us make better decisions. This work is funded by the Templeton Foundation.
I regularly teach courses on logic and rationality--which are core and classic topics of western philosophy. My aim is to challenge students to think carefully and critically about themselves and the world around them.
Here's my CV
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CONTACT: pinillos@asu.edu
BOOK #1
Why We Doubt: A Cognitive Account of Our Skeptical Inclinations. Oxford University Press. October 2023.
Chapter 5 (The Narrow Function of Skeptical Doubt)
Chapter 7 (Skepticism in Society)
Review International Journal for the Study of Skepticism (Branden Fitelson, Chad Gonnerman & John Waterman, Mark Walker)
Review Philosophical Review (Matt McGrath)
BOOK #2
Doubt in an Uncertain World: A Philosophical Theory of Doubt. Under contract with Oxford University Press
PAPERS
A Modest Solution to Skepticism (with Branden Fitelson)
An Experimental Study on Concepts (with Ben Phillips and Eleonore Neufeld)
Cohen on the Attraction and Defeat of Skeptical Hypotheses. Essays in Honor of Stewart Cohen (2024). Matt McGrath and Juan Comesana (Editors).
Banks, Stakes and Normative Facts. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. 2023
Bayesian Sensitivity Principles for Evidence Based Knowledge. 2022 Philosophical Studies
Evidence Sensitivity as a Heuristic for Doubt. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Volume 45. 2021
De Jure Anti-Coreference and Mental Files In Singular Thoughts and Mental Files. Oxford University Press. 2020
A Counterfactual Explanation for the Action Effect in Causal Judgment With Paul Henne, Laura Niemi, Josh Knobe and Felipe De Brigard. 2019 Cognition
Asymmetric Belief Sensitivity and Justification Explain the Wells Effect. COGSCI 2019 (with Sara Jaramillo and Zach Horne).
Skepticism and Evolution in Pragmatic Encroachment. 2019 Routledge
Knowledge and the Permissibility of Action. Synthese. 2019.
Skepticism and the Acquisition of 'Knowledge' with Shaun Nichols. Mind and Language 2018
Cause By Omission and Norm with Paul Henne and Felipe De Brigard. 2017 Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Ambiguous Reference . (with Shaun Nichols and Ron Mallon). Mind 2016
Experiments on Contextualism and Interest Relative Invariantism in Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy 2016
A Bayesian Framework for Knowledge Attribution:Evidence from Semantic Integration in Cognition 2015 (with Derek Powell, Zachary Horne and Keith Holyoak)
Millianism, Relationism and Attitude Ascriptions. On Reference. Oxford University Press. 2015
Ambiguity and Referential Machinery in Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language, 2015. Bloombsury
Justified True Belief (in a Gettier case) Triggers False Recall of 'Knew'.(with Derek Powell, Zachary Horne and Keith Holyoak) (CogSci 2013)
Semantic Integration as a Method for Investigating Concepts (with Derek Powell and Zachary Horne.) 2014 Advances in Experimental Epistemology
Experimental Evidence in Support of Anti-Intellectualism About Knowledge 2014 Advances in Experimental Epistemology (Bloomsbury) with Shawn Simpson
Attitudes, Supervaluations and Vagueness in the World 2014 Vague Objects and Vague Identity (Verlag)
Knowledge, Experiments and Practical Interests, 2012 New Essays On Knowledge Ascriptions Oxford University Press.
Coreference and Meaning Philosophical Studies. 2011.
Time Dilation, Context and Relative Truth. 2011 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
Recent Work in Experimental Epistemology . Philosophy Compass. 2011
'Philosophy's New Challenge: Experiments and Intentional Action. with Nick Smith, G. Shyam Nair, Cecilea Mun, Peter Marchetto. Mind and Language 2011
Counting and Indeterminate Identity. Mind 2003.
OP-EDS, REVIEWS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES ETC
Where is MAGA's plan to unify the country?
Why Arguments Still Work (November 11, 2020) The Medium.
Interview (In German)
Knowledge, Ignorance and Climate Change. New York Times (Nov 26, 2018) In 'Most Emailed Article' list in the NYT for two days in a row. Reprinted in Question Everything. WW Norton
Review of J. Saul "Simple Sentences, Substitution and Intuitions" Mind.
'Experimental Philosophy' (coauthored) Oxford Bibliographies Online.
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