J. Adam Carter

Personal

Citizenship: United States

Birthdate: September 26, 1980

Areas of Specialization

Epistemology, Value Theory, Meta-Ethics

Areas of Competence

Metaphysics, 20th-Century Analytic Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, History of Philosophy

Employment

Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Département de Philosophie, Université de Genève (February - July 2010)

Education

• Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of Edinburgh (April 2009)
  Thesis Title: The Value of Knowledge and the Problem of Epistemic Luck
  Supervisor: Professor Duncan Pritchard
  External Examiner: Professor Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University
  Internal Examiner: Dr. Jesper Kallestrup

• Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy (Visiting Doctoral Student, Fall 2008)

• Northwestern University, Department of Philosophy (Visiting Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Spring 2008)

• M.A. (Philosophy), University of Missouri-Columbia (2006)
  Dissertation Title: Zagzebski and the Gettier Problem; and Causes as Absences
  Supervisor: Professor Peter Markie

Committee: Professor Jonathan Kvanvig, Dr. Matthew McGrath

• B.A. (Philosophy); B.J. (Journalism), cum laude, University of Missouri-Columbia (2002)

Publications

• [1] (forthcoming 2011) "Radical Scepticism, Closure and Robust Knowledge" in Journal of Philosophical Research.

• [2] (forthcoming 2011) "Pointless Truths and the Cognitive Ideal" in Acta Analytica.

• [3] (forthcoming 2011) "Anti-Luck Epistemology and Safety's (Recent) Discontents" in Philosophia.

• [4] (forthcoming 2010) "The Epistemology of Testimony" (with Duncan Pritchard) in Oxford Bibliographies Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press).

• [5] (2008) "Just the Right Thickness: A Defense of Second-Wave Virtue Epistemology" (with Guy Axtell) in Philosophical Papers, Vol. 37 (3) 2008: pp. 413-434.

Reviews

• [1] (forthcoming 2011) "Ernest Sosa's Reflective Knowledge: Vol. I & II" in the rubum on Contemprary Philosophers, Protosociology, Vol. 27.

Papers in Progress

• "What's Really Wrong with Moore's Proof?" (revise and resubmit, Dialectica)

• "Is Epistemic Expressivism Incompatible with Inquiry?" (with Matthew Chrisman; under review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

• "Cognitive Achievements and Religious Knowledge" (with Duncan Pritchard) for the 2011 Oxford Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, ed. Jon Kvanvig.

Articles Discussing My Work

• Nenad Miscevic, "Virtue-Based Epistemology and the Centrality of Truth (Towards a Strong Virtue Epistemology" in Acta Analytica Vol. 22, No. 3, September 2007.

• Guy Axtell, "Expanding Epistemology: A Responsibilist Approach," forthcoming in Philosophical Papers.

• Guy Axtell, "Thickies: An Account of Second-Wave Virtue Epistemology," (draft) presented at University of Geneva Epistemic Agency Conference, April 2008.

Conference Papers (Refereed)

• "The Prospects of a Justificationist Account of the Significance of Epistemic Peer Disagreement" at the Vrije Universeteit Amsterdam International Conference on Re- sponsible Belief in the Face of Disagreement; Amsterdam, the Netherlands (August 2009)

• "Reply to Nishi Shah on Denying Doxastic Reasons" at the Oslo Center for the Study of Mind in Nature International Conference on the Aim of Belief; Oslo, Norway (June 2009)

• "Against Veritism," presented at the Rochester Epistemology Conference, Rochester University, October 2008.

• "Knowledge in the Balance of Luck and Ability," presented at the International Conference on Epistemic Agency, University of Geneva, Switzerland (April 2008).

• "The Meno Problem and the Meno Requirement," presented at the International Conference on the Value of Knowledge, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Nether- lands, (August 2007).

• "Popper, the Open Society and the Case Against Plato," presented at the Inter- national Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, New York City (October 2005).

• "Two Deadly Sins: An Objection to van den Haag's Defense of the Death Penalty," presented at the New Mexico/West Texas Philosophical Society Annual Conference, El Paso, Texas (April 2005).

• "Zagzebski and the Gettier Problem," presented at the International Conference on Virtue Epistemology, University of Stirling, Scotland (November 2004).

• "Johannes Climacus and the Problem of Divine Hiddenness," presented at the Divine Hiddenness Conference, University of Colorado-Boulder (October 2004).

Presentations (Invited)

• "Knowledge, Testimony and Philosophical Expertise", invited Phileas talk at the University of Geneva, November 13, 2009.

• "Knowledge, Testimony and Philosophical Expertise" at the University of Copenhagen Social Epistemology Workshop, October 29, 2009.

• "Swamping, Additive Value and Epistemic Parts" at the Carnegie Institute workshop on Normativity, University of Stirling, October 9-10, 2009.

• "Pointless Truths and the Cognitive Ideal" at the International Conference on Virtue and Value in Epistemology, Bled, Slovenia (June 2009).

• "Pointless Truths and the Cognitive Ideal" (invited talk) to the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo; Oslo, Norway (June 2009)

• "Pointless Truths," presented at the Young European Epistemologists Workshop, University of Geneva, Switzerland (March 2009)

• "On the Problem of Pointless Truths," presented at the University of Edinburgh Work in Progress Seminar (February 2008).

• "The Truth About Mere True Belief," presented at the Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Workshop (February 2009).

• "Kvanvig on Pointless Truths," presented at the Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Workshop (November 2008).

• "Knowledge, Credit and Testimony," presented at the University of Edinburgh Epis- temology Research Group (November 2008)

• "Greco on Ability, Salience and Causal Explanation," [*Keynote talk] presented at the University of Edinburgh Undergraduate/Postgraduate Conference.

• "The Epistemic Point of View," presented at Rutgers University, Doctoral WIP (Epistemology) (October 2008).

• "Recent Work on Moore's Proof," presented at the St. Andrews University AHRC Research Center for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind (April 2008).

• "Objectivity, Salience and Causal Explanation: A Reply to John Greco," at the John Greco Episteme Lectures on Epistemic Normativity, sponsored by Episteme, University of Geneva, Switzerland (April 2008).

• "The Swamping Problem," presented to the Northwestern University Department of Philosophy (February 2008).

• "The Myth of the Swamping Problem," presented to the PhilEAS research group at the Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland (November 2007).

• "Value Holism and Epistemic Parts," presented at the Work in Progress seminar, University of Edinburgh (October 2007).

• "Wayne Riggs and the Intellectual Virtue of Insight," presented to the St. Andrews University AHRC Research Center for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind (April 2007).

• "Openmindedness and Insight as Intellectual Virtues," presented at the Stirling University Graduate Work in Progress Seminar (April 2007).

• "Julia Driver on the Virtue Conflation Problem," presented to the Stirling University Philosophy Society, Dundee, Scotland (March 2007).

Awards and Prizes

• 2010 13,700 CHF CURANO Fellowship Bursary, Département de Philosophie Université de Genéve

• 2007-2008: Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Fellowship Recipient; £8,000

• 2008-2009: Royal Institute of Philosophy Jacobsen Bursary Recipient; £2,500

• 2007-2007: University of Stirling, Department of Philosophy graduate student bursary award; £3,000

• 2005: A.C. Benjamin Graduate Essay Prize, University of Missouri-Columbia; $ 500

Journal Referee

• Philosophical Papers

• Philosophia

• Dialectica

Conferences Organized

• Epistemic Luck (conference organizer); International symposium on epistemic luck (Spring 2010: University of Geneva).

• Justification Revisited (conference co-organizer); International conference on epistemic justification (March 2010: University of Geneva)

• Knowledge and Understanding (conference organizer); International graduate con- ference in epistemology at the University of Edinburgh, November 2007. Keynote Speaker: Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University. Respondent: Duncan Pritchard, University of Edinburgh.

Workshops Organized

• Norms of Assertion, University of Geneva (summer 2010)

Teaching (University of Edinburgh)

• Adjunct Lecturer, University of Edinburgh Department of Philosophy. Topics: Epistemology, Scepticism and Virtue Ethics. (2008-2009)

• Seminar Tutor, University of Edinburgh Department of Philosophy. Honours Metaphysics and Epistemology (2007-2008), Greats: Plato to Enlightenment (2009)

Teaching (University of Stirling)

• Seminar Tutor, PHI911 ("Philosophy, What's it All About?"): Module Director: Dr. Kent Hurtig; Autumn 2007.

• Seminar Tutor, PHI9C4 ("Logic"): Module Director: Peter Sullivan; University of Stirling, Spring 2007.

• Seminar Tutor, PHI911 ("Philosophy, What's it All About?"): Module Director: Alan Millar; Module Coordinators: Prof. Alan Millar, Dr. Adrian Haddock, Dr. Kent Hurtig; University of Stirling: Autumn 2006

Teaching (University of Missouri-Columbia)

• Course Instructor: Philosophy 1100 (Introduction to Philosophy): Spring 2006

• Course Instructor: Philosophy 1000 (Introduction to Ethics): Autumn 2005

• Teaching Assistant: Philosophy 51 (Introduction to Ethics); Course Director: Dr. Shane Duarte: Spring 2005

• Teaching Assistant: Philosophy 51 (Introduction to Ethics); Course Director: Prof. Peter Markie: Autumn 2004

• Teaching Assistant: Philosophy 51 (Introduction to Ethics); Course Director: Prof. Paul Weirich: Spring 2004

• Teaching Assistant: Philosophy 51 (Introduciton to Ethics); Course Director: Prof. Peter Markie: Autumn 2003