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I received my Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2002. I work mainly in the areas of epistemology and virtue theory. My interests in epistemology include virtue epistemology, skepticism, a priori knowledge, and moral and religious epistemology. My interests in ethics include virtue ethics and moral psychology. See below for a list of my publications.

 Books:

The Inquring Mind: On Intellectual Virtues and Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2011). 

 Articles and book chapters:

"Sophia," forthcoming in Virtues and their Vices eds. Kevin Timpe and Craig Boyd (Oxford UP).

"Must Knowledge Be Virtuously Motivated?" co-authored with Linda Zagzebski, forthcoming in the second edition of Blackwell's Contemporary Debates in Epistemology  (eds. Matthias Steup and John Turri).

"Two Kinds of Wisdom," forthcoming in a special issue of Acta Analytica collecting papers from the 2011 Bled Philosophy Conference.

"The Cognitive Demands of Intellectual Virtue," forthcoming in Knowledge, Virtue, and Action, eds. David Schweikard and Tim Henning (Routledge, 2012).

"Credit Theories and the Value of Knowledge," forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly.

"Open-Mindedness as a Christian Virtue?" forthcoming in Being Good , eds. Michael Austin and Douglas Geivett (Eerdmans).

"The Structure of Open-Mindedness,"Canadian Journal of Philosophy  41 (2011),  pp. 191-213.

"Epistemic Malevolence," Metaphilosophy 41 (2010), pp. 189-213. Reprinted in Virtue and Vice: Epistemic and Moral , ed. Heather Battaly (Blackwell, 2010).

"Is There a Value Problem?," Epistemic Value, eds. Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar, and Duncan Pritchard (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 42-59.

"Evidentialism, Vice, and Virtue," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78 (May 2009), pp. 545-67. Reprinted in Evidentialism and Its Discontents, ed. Trent Dougherty (Oxford University Press, 2011).

"Four Varieties of Character-Based Virtue Epistemology," Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (2008), pp. 469-502. To be reprinted in Virtue Epistemology: Contemporary Readings,  eds. John Turri and John Greco (MIT Press, forthcoming).

"On the Reliability of Moral and Intellectual Virtues," Metaphilosophy 38 (2007), pp. 457-71.

"Character, Reliability, and Virtue Epistemology," Philosophical Quarterly  56 (2006), pp. 193-212.

"Character In Epistemology," Philosophical Studies  128 (2006), pp. 479-514 .

"Korsgaard on the Foundations of Moral Obligation," Journal of Value Inquiry  37 (2003), pp. 481-91.

"Necessity and Rational Insight: BonJour and Audi on A Priori Justification," Journal of Philosophical Research  28 (2003), pp. 361-70.

 Encyclopedia articles:

"Virtue Epistemology ,"Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2004, online).

"A Priori/A Posteriori ," Internet Encylopedia of Philosophy (2003, online).

 Book reviews:

Review of Ernest Sosa, Knowing Full Well, forthcoming in Mind.

Review of Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Glittering Vices: On the Seven Deadly Sins and their Remedies, Journal of Spiritual Formation 3 (2010), pp. 109-111.

Review of Bob Roberts & Jay Wood, Intellectual Virtues: An Essay in Regulative Epistemology, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews  (2007, online).

Review of Duncan Pritchard, Epistemic Luck, Metaphilosophy 37 (2006), pp. 728-36.

Review of Michael DePaul & Linda Zagzebski (eds.), Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology, Philosophical Books 47 (2006), pp. 81-85.

Review of Jay Wood, Becoming Intellectually Virtuous, Philosophia Christi  2 (2000).

 Some works in progress or under review:

"Wisdom In Perspective"

"Flannery O'Connor and Religious Epistemology"

"A Further Problem with the Value Problem"

 Other papers:

Conference comments on J. Lackey's "Why We Don't Deserve Credit for Everything We Know"

"Internalism and the Value Problem"

"Unraveling the Value Problem"

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