Dr. Alexander Jackson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He specializes in epistemology and metaphysics. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2010.
Articles
Appearances, Rationality, and Justified Belief, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2011)
One might think that its seeming to you that p makes you justified in believing...
Two Ways to Put Knowledge First, Forthcoming in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy. (2011)
This paper distinguishes two ways to ‘put knowledge first’. One way affirms a knowledge norm....
The Inflexibility of Relative Truth, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (2010)
The ideology of relative truth is inflexible in two ways. Firstly, what's true-for-J is closed...
Unpublished Papers
Easy Knowledge, Liberalism, and the Moorean Response to Skepticism (draft 2/13/2012) (2012)
Stewart Cohen (2002, 2005) argues that perceptual knowledge that a table is red isn’t foundational....
Relativism Without Relative Truth (short version 2/29/12) (2012)
I don’t think truth-relativism is the best version of relativism about matters of taste, such...
Vagueness and the Irrelevance of Truth to Metaphysics (tweaked 4/11/12) (2012)
This paper proposes a unified account of three puzzling intuitions about vagueness. Firstly, one ‘can...
Other
Evaluating Beliefs (Dissertation) (2010)
This dissertation examines some of ways of evaluating beliefs, relevant to epistemology and to metaphysics....