I am a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow at the University of Zürich. I am a philosopher and I have focused my research on three main questions: What are normative reasons in general? How do we think about graded notions in epistemology? What are the consequences within and outside epistemology of taking knowledge as fundamental and explanatorily prime? These general research questions correspond to my three main research programs. See my research statement for more on these.
I am also a member of ZEGRA (Zurich Epistemology Group on Rationality).
Selected Publications
Books
- Normative Reasons: Between Reasoning and Explanation, forthcoming, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy series)
Edited Volumes
- (with Jacques Vollet) Putting Knowledge to Work: New Directions for Knowledge-First Epistemology, under contract with Oxford University Press
Articles
- Persistent Burglars and Knocks on Doors: Causal Indispensability of Knowing Vindicated, European Journal of Philosophy, (2021), doi: 10.1111/ejop.12751, link to publication (Open Access);
- How to Argue with a Pragmatist, Inquiry, (2021); link to publication; penultimate version (PDF);
- (with John Hawthorne). Graded Epistemic Justification, Philosophical Studies, (2020); doi:10.1007/s11098-020-01512-0; penultimate version (PDF);
- Is an increase in probability always an increase in evidential support? Erkenntnis, (2020); link to publication; penultimate version (PDF).
- Two-State Solution to the Lottery Paradox, Philosophical Studies, (2019); penultimate version (PDF), link to publication.
- Normative Reasons Without (Good) Reasoning, Ethics, 130:2, (2020): 208-210; doi: 10.1086/705765.
- Subjective Unpossessed Reasons, Thought, 7:4, (2018): 262-270, 2018, doi:10.1002/tht3.395; PDF; link to publication.
- Common Sense and Evidence: Some Neglected Arguments in Favour of E=K. Theoria, 83:2, (2017): 120–137; doi:10.1111/theo.12111; PDF; link to publication.
- Save the children! Analysis 76:4, (2016): 418-422; doi:10.1093/analys/anw051; PDF; link to publication.
- The problem of massive deception for justification norms of action. Acta Analytica, 29:4, (2014): 457-468; doi: 10.1007/s12136-014-0220-1; PDF; link to publication.
- (Book Review) Review of M.McBride, Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge, dialectica, 73:1, (2020): 280-285.
- (General Audience) Why won’t scientific evidence change the minds of Loch Ness monster true believers?, The Conversation, June 6, 2018;
Slides for Reasons and Inquiry: here
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