RAM NETA Associate Professor

Ram Neta specializes in epistemology and is currently at work on a book on the nature of knowledge. Sample publications include:  "S knows that P," Noûs (2002); "Contextualism and the Problem of the External World," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2003); "Skepticism, Contextualism, and Semantic Self-Knowledge," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2003); "Perceptual Evidence and the New Dogmatism," Philosophical Studies (2004); "Luminosity and the Safety of Knowledge," (co-authored with Guy Rohrbaugh), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2004); "Skepticism, Abductivism, and the Explanatory Gap," Philosophical issues (2004); The Normative Significance of Brute Facts," Legal Theory (2004); "A Contextualist Solution to the Problem of Easy Knowledge" Grazer Philosophische Studien (2005); "Epistemology Factualized: New Contractarian Foundations for Epistemology," Synthese (2006); "Contextualism and a Puzzle About Seeing," Philosophical Studies (2007); "Safety and Epistemic Luck," (co-authored with Avram Hiller), Synthese (2007); "McDowell and the New Evil Genius," (co-authored with Duncan Pritchard), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2007); "Anti-Intellectualism and the Knowledge-Action Principle," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2007); "Propositional Justification, Evidence, and the Cost of Error," Philosophical Issues (2007); "Fixing the Transmission: the New Mooreans" Themes from G.E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, ed. by Nuccetelli and Seay (2007); "In Defense of Epistemic Relativism," Episteme (2007); "What Evidence Do You Have?", British Journal for Philosophy of Science (2008); "In Defense of Disjunctivism," Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, and knowledge, ed. by MacPherson and Haddock (2008); "Empiricism about Experience", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2008); "The Nature and Reach of Privileged Access," Self-Knowledge, ed. by Hatzimoysis (Oxford, forthcoming); "How to Naturalize Epistemology" New Waves in Epistemology, ed. by Pritchard and Hendricks (Ashgate, 2008); "Undermining the Case for Contrastivism," Social Epistemology (forthcoming); "How Cheap Can You Get", Philosophical Issues (2008); "Defeating the Dogma of Defeasibility," Williamson on Knowledge, ed. by Greenough and Pritchard (Oxford, forthcoming), "Treating something as a reason for action", Nous (forthcoming), "Mature Human Knowledge as a Standing in the Space of Reasons", Philosophical Topics (forthcoming); "Can A Priori Entitlement be Preserved by Testimony?" in Social Epistemology, ed. by Haddock, Millar, and Pritchard (Oxford, forthcoming); "What Can We Know by Reflection Alone?", Critica (forthcoming). [[Complete CV]

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