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Carter

Dr. J. Adam Carter

Lecturer in Philosophy (PhD University of Edinburgh)

Contact Details

Room 19.303

Tel: +44(0)2890973626

Email: adam.carter@qub.ac.uk

Personal webpage

Northern Ireland's community philosophy blog: http://qubphilblog.blogspot.com/

Teaching Areas

I am teaching Metaphysics in the autumn and Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Religion in the spring.

Research Interests

Epistemology (especially virtue epistemology, epistemic luck, epistemic value and skepticism); Value Theory; Metaphysics (especially causation) and 20th Century Analytic Philosophy (especially Wittgenstein and Moore).

Research Supervision

I am happy to supervise research students in any area of Epistemology.

Recent and forthcoming publications:

(2012) "Knowledge: Value on the Cheap" (with Benjamin Jarvis and Katherine Rubin), forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

(2012) "Against Swamping" (with Benjamin Jarvis), forthcoming in Analysis.

(2012) "A Note on Assertion, Relativism and Future Contingents" forthcoming in Logos & Episteme.

(2012) "Relativism"  (with Maria Baghramian): in preparation, for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, expected January 2012)

(2012) A Problem for Pritchard's Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology in Erkenntnis (forthcoming 2012).

(2011) Norms of Assertion: The Quantity and Quality of Epistemic Support (with Emma C. Gordon) in Philosophia (forthcoming 2011).

 

(2011) Is Epistemic Expressivism Incompatible with Inquiry? (with Matthew Chrisman) in Philosophical Studies, forthcoming 2011.

 

(2011) Radical Skepticism, Closure and Robust Knowledge in The Journal of Philosophical Research, forthcoming 2011.

 

(2011) Recent Work on Moore's Proof in The International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, forthcoming 2011.

 

(2011) Kvanvig on Pointless Truths and the Cognitive Ideal inActa Analytica, Vol. 26, Issue 3 (2011) pp. 285-293. 

 

(2010) Anti-Luck Epistemology and Safety's (Recent) Discontentsin Philosophia. 

 

(2010) The Epistemology of Testimony (with Duncan Pritchard) inOxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, 2010.

 

(2008) Just the Right Thickness: A Defence of Second-Wave Virtue Epistemology (with Guy Axtell) in Philosophical Papers Vol. 37, No. 3 (November 2008): 413-434.

 

 

 

REVIEWS

 

(2012) Review of Jason Baehr's The Inquiring Mind, forthcoming in Philosophical Quarterly.

 

(2012) Review of Stanley's Know-How, forthcoming, International Journal of Philosophical Studies

 

(2011) On E. Sosa's Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Vol. 1 & 2 in Protosociology, forthcoming 2011.

 

(2011) Review of Relativism and Monadic Truth by Herman Cappelen & John Hawthorne in Protosociology.