EJ Coffman's Homepage
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of Tennessee
▪ Research
I'm in the midst of writing/revising four papers, in this order (I'll link to papers as they become available):
▫ Lenient Accounts of Warranted Assertability
▫ How Seriously Can God Deliberate?
▫ Luck and Standard Libertarianism
Before too terribly long, Nathan Ballantyne and I should have a new paper about key aspects of recent work on the epistemology of disagreement.
Finally, I continue planning for a paper on relations between different kinds of epistemic luck and epistemic permissivism―the view that your evidence sometimes justifies multiple different attitudes toward a particular proposition.
▪ Teaching
I'm teaching two courses: a graduate-level course on recent work on Freedom and Moral Responsibility, and an upper-level undergraduate course called Problems of Knowledge.
And I'm finishing up a small independent study that derives from the graduate-level course I taught last Spring: Advanced Survey of Epistemology.
[Why the blues, golds, and greens? I did my Ph.D. at The University of Notre Dame.]
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Forthcoming
"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)
What's New?
09/02/08: Posted the current draft of Knowledge First? (the paper formerly known as "Justification Before Knowledge?").
08/06/08: Posted the current draft of a new paper on epistemically appropriate belief and assertion: Two Mistakes about Belief and Assertion. As always, feedback welcome and appreciated!
06/02/08: Posted the latest drafts of Misleading Dispositions and the Value of Knowledge and Does Luck Exclude Control?. Any and all advice/comments/objections/etc. warmly welcomed and thoroughly appreciated!
04/05/08: Posted the latest draft of Lenient Accounts of Warranted Assertability, which is revised in light of many excellent comments I've received this semester (thanks!).
