Joel Pust
associate professor of philosophy @ the university of delaware

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TEACHING

Spring, 2012   
    PHIL320: Theory of Knowledge
    PHIL465: Self, Time and Evidence

Fall, 2012
    PHIL102: Introduction to Philosophy
    PHIL320: Theory of Knowledge

RESEARCH

Current Research

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

Publications

"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.  

"Conditionalization and Essentially Indexical Credence."  (forthcoming).  Journal of Philosophy.

¬Video of talk at the 2010 Formal Epistemology Workshop

"Sleeping Beauty, Evidential Support and Indexical Knowledge: Reply to Horgan."  (forthcoming).  Synthese.

"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.

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

"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.


CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Philosophy
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
phone: 302-831-8208
email: [my first initial and my last name] [at] udel [dot] edu
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