Interests. Ethics: guilt-free morality, analogies between moral philosophy and linguistics, moral particularism, virtue ethics, morality as resting on an implicit actual contract, moral relativism. Epistemology: induction, statistical learning theory, psychology of reasoning, pragmatic aspects of reasoning, logic as a theory of implication not inference, rejection of apriori knowledge, epistemic foundations, full belief as believing one knows. Language: rejection of analyticity, conceptual role semantics, truth-functional "semantics," linguistics. Mind: consciousness, intention, self-reflexive states, cognitive science. Upcoming Events in Cognitive Science in and around Princeton. Teaching 2008-2009. Fall: PHI 535, Philosophy of Mind Graduate Seminar. Syllabus and Notes (UPDATED 11/1/2008: Joshua Knobe visiting on 12/5). Spring: PHI 516, Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: Quine and Davidson, a Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Seminar, co-taught with Ernie Lepore, meeting alternately in New Brunswick and in Princeton. More information here. (Updated October 22, 2008.) CV Online versions of recent work Recent unpublished writings. Updated November 26, 2008. Recent published writings. Full publication list Family. Last edited: "November 30, 2008, 09:04 am"