Current Activities: Fall 2009

EJ Coffman's Homepage

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of Tennessee

Research

I'm working on the following papers (I'll link to them as they become available):

     Does Knowledge Secure Warrant to Assert?

    ▫ How (Not) to Reply to the Luck Argument

    ▫ Luck, Fragility, and Control

    ▫ Contextualism and Interest-Relative Invariantism

    ▫ A Dilemma for Clarke's Defense of the Contrast Argument

Teaching

I'm teaching an advanced undergraduate course on Philosophy of Religion and a graduate-level course on Moral Luck.

[Why the blues, golds, and greens?  I did my Ph.D. at The University of Notre Dame.]

 

                                                    

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   Forthcoming

"Misleading Dispositions and the Value of Knowledge," Journal of Philosophical Research

"Omniprescience and Tough Choices," Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion

"The Fall of the Mind Argument and Some Lessons about Freedom" (with Donald Smith), in Action, Ethics and Responsibility, eds. Joseph Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and David Shier (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)

"Contextualism and Interest-Relative Invariantism," Continuum Companion to Epistemology (ed. Andrew Cullison)

 

              What's New?

8/18/09: Posted the latest drafts of How (Not) to Reply to the Luck Argument, and A Dilemma for Clarke's Defense of the Contrast Argument. And I posted what will probably be the final version of Misleading Dispositions and the Value of Knowledge.

6/14/09: Posted the latest drafts of Does Knowledge Secure Warrant to Assert? and Uniqueness and Equal Weight (with Nathan Ballantyne).