Joel Pust
professor of philosophy @ the university of delaware

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TEACHING

Spring, 2013   
    PHIL202: Contemporary Moral Problems
    PHIL320: Theory of Knowledge

Fall, 2013
    PHIL 102: Introduction to Philosophy
    PHIL 320: Theory of Knowledge

Courses Taught:
    Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 102), Philosophies of Life (PHIL 100),
    Contemporary Moral Problems (PHIL 202), Theory of Knowledge (PHIL 320),
    Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 330), Senior Seminar (PHIL 465).

RESEARCH

Current Research

a priori justification, intuitions in philosophical inquiry, confirmation theory and indexical belief

Publications

Articles

"Empirical Evidence for Rationalism?"  (forthcoming).  In Intuitions, D. Rowbottom & A. Booth (eds.).  New York: Oxford University Press.  

"Skepticism, Reason and Reidianism."  (forthcoming).  In The A Priori in Philosophy, A. Casullo & J. Thurow (eds.).  New York: Oxford University Press.  

"Sleeping Beauty, Evidential Support and Indexical Knowledge: Reply to Horgan."  (2013).  Synthese  190: 1489-1501.

"Intuition."  (2012).  In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E. Zalta (ed.).

"Conditionalization and Essentially Indexical Credence."  (2012).  Journal of Philosophy 109: 295-315.

¬Video of talk at the 2010 Formal Epistemology Workshop

"Sleeping Beauty and Direct Inference."  (2011).  Analysis 71: 290-293.

"Diachronic Dutch Books and Sleeping Beauty."  (2008).  Synthese 164: 281-287[with Kai Draper]

"Horgan on Sleeping Beauty."  (2008).  Synthese 160: 91-101.

"Cartesian Knowledge and Confirmation."  (2007).  Journal of Philosophy 104: 269-289.

"Probabilistic Arguments for Multiple Universes." (2007).   Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88: 288-307.  [with Kai Draper & Paul Draper]

"Natural Selection and the Traits of Individual Organisms."  (2004).  Biology and Philosophy 19: 765-779.

"On Explaining Knowledge of Necessity."  (2004).   Dialectica 58: 71-87.

"Kitcher on Tradition-Independent A Priori Warrant."  (2002).  The Philosophical Quarterly 52: 373-376.

"Against Explanationist Skepticism Regarding Philosophical Intuitions."  (2001).  Philosophical Studies 106: 227-258.

¬Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual 24 (2003).

"Natural Selection Explanation and Origin Essentialism."  (2001).   Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31: 201-220.

"Warrant and Analysis."  (2000).   Analysis 60: 51-57.

"External Accounts of Folk Psychology, Eliminativism and The Simulation Theory."  (1999).   Mind and Language 14: 113-130.

"Philosophical Theory and Intuitional Evidence."  (1998).  In Rethinking Intuition, W. Ramsey & M. DePaul (eds.).  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.  [with Alvin Goldman]

¬Reprinted in Alvin Goldman's Pathways to Knowledge.  (2002).  New York: Oxford University Press.

"Induction, Focused Sampling and The Law of Small Numbers."  (1996).  Synthese 108: 89-104.

"Defusing the Combinatorial Explosion."  (1995).  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 18: 392-393.

Books

Intuitions as Evidence.  (2000).   New York: Routledge.


Reviews

"On Reflection."  (forthcoming).  Episteme.  [Review of Hilary Kornblith's On Reflection.  (2012).  New York: Oxford University Press.]

"A Priori Justification."  (2005).  Mind 114: 124-128.  [Review of Albert Casullo's A Priori Justification.  (2004).  New York: Oxford University Press.]

CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Philosophy
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
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