My research focuses on traditional and contemporary issues in epistemology and draws from my strong interests in the history of philosophy as well as the philosophy of mind, language, and science.
Reliability theories have undeniable virtues.
I have criticized these accounts on the grounds that even if they identify principles that reliability theories violate, it is not clear why an adequate epistemology ought to preserve these principals. In defending this view, an issue that requires attention is the significance of philosophical skepticism. The worry is that a reason-based conception of justification of the sort I favor may be thought to involve a demand for a global justification of our beliefs which cannot be satisfied. I am currently exploring a response to skepticism which concedes that the radical doubts of the skeptic are real and unanswerable, but denies that our inability to answer those doubts levels the epistemic distinctions we make in everyday and scientific contexts of inquiry.