Tim Black

Education

B.A. in Philosophy and English, Auburn University, 1994

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2001

Research Interests

Epistemology

History of Modern Philosophy (especially Hume)

Wittgenstein

Philosophy of Mind

Metaphysics

Curriculum Vitae (one two)

 

Some Publications

"What We Can Learn from the Skeptical Puzzle," Iris: European Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate 1 (2009): 439-447.

"A Warrented-Assertability Defense of a Moorean Response to Skepticism," Acta Analytica 23 (2008): 187-205.

"Solving the Problem of Easy Knowledge," The Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2008): 597-617.

"Defending a Sensitive Neo-Moorean Invariantism," in New Waves in Epistemology, Vincent F. Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008): 8-27.

"In Defense of Sensitivity" (written with Peter Murphy), Synthese 154 (2007): 53-71.

"The Distinction between Coherence and Constancy in Hume's Treatise I.iv.2," The British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2007): 1-25.

"Avoiding the Dogmatic Commitments of Contextualism" (written with Peter Murphy), Grazer Philosophische Studien 69 (2005): 165-182.

"Classic Invariantism, Relevance, and Warranted Assertability Manoeuvers," The Philosophical Quarterly 55 (2005): 328-336.

"Contextualism in Epistemology," The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed., James Fieser.[Posted December 5, 2003 at http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/contextu.htm.]

"A Moorean Response to Brain-in-a-Vat Scepticism," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2002):148-163.