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Brian Weatherson
Associate Professor
| Contact Information |
| Office: |
Davison Hall 37 |
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| Phone: |
(732) 932-9861 x158 |
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| Education |
| B.A., Monash University; Ph.D., Monash University |
| Speciality |
| Epistemology, Phil. of Language |
| Research |
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I'm interested largely in questions about the interface between the formal and more traditional methods in philosophy. So I'm interested in how probabilistic epistemology developed in the last few decades constrains,
and should be constrained by, broader epistemological debates. And I'm interested in how we map vague natural languages onto relatively precise formal languages.
Apart from that, I tend to write about philosophical puzzles as they come up. So I have written about the limits to imagination in fiction, about whether directional quantities are intrinsic, about pronouns on
answering machine messages, and several other puzzles.
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| Selected Publications |
- Indicatives and Subjunctives. Philosophical Quarterly 51 (2001): 200-216.
- Intrinsic Properties and Combinatorial Principles. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2001): 365-380.
- Keynes, Uncertainty and Interest Rates. Cambridge Journal of Economics 26 (2002): 47-62.
- What Good are Counterexamples? Philosophical Studies 115 (2003): 1-31.
- Many Many Problems. Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2003): 481-501.
- From Classical to Constructive Probability. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 44 (2003): 111-123.
- Morality, Fiction and Possibility. Philosophers Imprint vol 4, no 3.
- True, Truer, Truest. Philosophical Studies 123 (2005): 47-70.
- Epistemic Modals in Context. (with Andy Egan and John Hawthorne), in Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter (eds) Contextualism in Philosophy, OUP
2005, pp. 131-69.
- Scepticism, Rationalism and Empiricism. Oxford Studies in Epistemology, 1 (2005): 311-31.
- Should We Respond to Evil with Indifference? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (2005): 613-35.
- Can We Do Without Pragmatic Encroachment? Philosophical Perspectives, 19 (2005): 417-43.
- The Asymmetric Magnets Problem. Philosophical Perspectives, 20 (2006): 479-92.
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