Essays by Year

2024

Meta-Argumentation and Para-Argument (2024)

With John Casey. ECA Proceedings

When the Dog Bites the Subaltern: On Diogenes’s Mistreatment of the Marginalized (2024)

With G. M. Trujillo, JR. Epoche

What about Whataboutism? (2024)

With John Casey. Social Epistemology

Knock Knock: Meta-Argumentative Humor, Who? (2024)

With John Casey. Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines

On The Ethics of Real-Life Examples of Argument (2024)

Informal Logic

Meta-Argument and Specious Allegations of Fallacy (2024)

With John Casey. ECA Proceedings

The Ambitious and the Modest Meta-Argumentation Theses (2024)

With John Casey. Res Philosophica

2023

Hookway’s Soft Skepticism and Epistemic Conservatism, A Modest Skeptical Pragmatist Reply (2023)

Pragmatic Reason: Essays in Honor of Christopher Hookway

The Academic at the Crossroads: A Dialectical Assessment of Augustinian Pragmatic Anti-Skepticism. (2023)

Synthese

On Halting Meta-Argument with Para-Argument (2023)

With John Casey. Argumentation

Free Speech Fallacies as Meta-Argumentative Errors (2023)

With John Casey. Argumentation

2022

The Stoic Sage does not Err: An Error? (2022)

Symposion

Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy (2022)

Routledge Pragmatism Companion

On Willing to Believe (2022)

The Jamesian Mind

Epicureans on Death and Lucretius’ Squandering Argument (2022)

Southwest Philosophy Review

Introduction to Stoicism (2022)

With William O. Stephens. Symposion

Fallacies of Meta-Argumentation (2022)

With John Casey. Philosophy & Rhetoric

Bothsiderism (2022)

With John Casey. Argumentation

Argumentation and the Problem of Agreement (2022)

With John Casey. Synthese

On Diogenes and Olympic Victors: Cynic Rhetoric and the Problem of Audience (2022)

With Lucy Alsip Vollbrecht. Epoche

2021

Deep Disagreement and the Problem of the Criterion (2021)

Topoi

Argumentative Adversariality, Contrastive Reasons, and the Winners-and-Losers Problem (2021)

Topoi

Disagreement, Polarization, and the Flight of Minerva’s Owl (2021)

With Robert B. Talisse. Argument

2020

Skeptical Responses to Stoics and Epicureans on the Criterion (2020)

Routledge Handbook Hellenistic Philosophy

Does Metaphilosophically Pragmatist Anti-Skepticism Work? (2020)

Logos & Episteme

The Owl of Minerva Problem (Presidential Address) (2020)

Southwest Philosophy Review

What Optimistic Responses to Deep Disagreement get Right (and Wrong) (2020)

Co-Herencia

Methodological and Valuational Priority in Epictetus’ Enchiridion 52 (2020)

History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis

Dialectical Responsibility and Regress Skepticism (2020)

Epistemic Duties

Argumentative Ethics (2020)

With Lucy Alsip Vollbrecht. International Encyclopedia of Ethics

2019

Deep Disagreement, the Dark Enlightenment, and the Rhetoric of the Red Pill (2019)

Journal of Applied Philosophy

Skeptical Theism and the Creep Problem (2019)

With Brian Ribero. Logos & Epistime

Pragmatist Anti-Skepticism: At What Price? (2019)

With Thomas Dabay. The Mystery of Skepticism

2018

Pragmatism, Common Sense, and Metaphilosophy: A Skeptical Rejointer (2018)

Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society

On the Limits of the Term “Pragmatism” (2018)

Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society

Epistemic Infinitism (2018)

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Dialectality and Deep Disagreement (2018)

Symposion

Why the Dialectical Tier is an Epistemic Animal (2018)

European Conference on Argumentation

The Will-to-Believe is Immoral (2018)

With Robert B. Taisse. William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life

Pragmatism and “Existential” Pluralism: A Reply to Hackett (2018)

With Robert B. Talisse. Contemporary Pragmatism

Expressivism, Moral Judgement, and Disagreement: A Jamesian Program (2018)

With Michael Hodges. Journal of Speculative Philosophy

2017

Seneca on Surpassing God (2017)

Journal of the American Philosophical Association

Methodological and Metaphilosophical Lessons in Plato’s Ion (2017)

Journal of Ancient Philosophy

Modest, but not Self-Effacing, Transcendental Arguments (2017)

The Philosophical Forum

Fallacy Theory, the Negativity Problem, and Minimal Dialectical Adversariality (2017)

Cogency

Comic Phthonos and Protrepic Premises: Comments on Rebecca Bensen Cain (2017)

Southwest Philosophy Review

Cieronian Academic Skepticism, Augustinian Anti-Skepticism, and the Argument from Second Place (2017)

Ancient Philosophy

Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy (2017)

With Robert B. Talisse. Pragmatism & Objectivity

What did Epicurus Learn from Plato? (2017)

With Lenn E. Goodman. Philosophy

2016

So What if Horses Would Draw Horse Gods? (2016)

Sophia

A (Modest) Defense of Fallacy Theory (2016)

OSSA

Mention Problems for Expressivism: Comments on D.S. Nelson’s “Defending an Expressivist Account of Reasons” (2016)

Southwest Philosophy Review

Does Divine Hiding Undermine Positive Evidential Atheism? (2016)

Religious Studies

Pragmatism and Pluralism Revisited (2016)

With Robert B. Talisse. Political Studies Review

Straw Man, Iron Man, and Argumentative Virtue (2016)

With John Casey. Topoi

2015

Truth and Brandomian Metaphilosophy (2015)

AL-MUKHATABAT

God and Argument (2015)

JCRT

Does Divine Hiding Undermine Positive Evidential Atheism? (2015)

Religious Studies

Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism (2015)

Symposion

Reply to Anderson (2015)

With Robert B. Talisse. The Pluralist

An Atheistic Argument from Ugliness (2015)

With Nicholas Jones. European Journal of Political Research

Don’t Feed the Trolls: Straw Men and Iron Men (2015)

With John Casey. Theoretical Issues in Argumentation Theory

Modest (but not Self-Effacing) Transcendental Arguments (2015)

Southwest Philosophy Review

2014

Xenophanes the High Rationalist: The Case of F1:17-8 (2014)

Epoche

Prospects for Moral Epistemic Infinitism (2014)

Metaphilosophy

Knowing Better, Cognitive Command, and Epistemic Infinitism (2014)

Ad Infinitum

Environmental Ethics and the Expanding Problem of Evil (2014)

Think

A Dilemma for James’s Justification of Faith (2014)

William James Studies

The Curious Case of Epictetus’s Encheiridion 33.14-15 (2014)

Epictetus’s Legacy

Why We Argue: A Sketch of an Epistemic-Democratic Program (2014)

With Robert B. Talisse. Inquiry

Stoicism, Feminism and Autonomy (2014)

With Emily McGill-Rutherford. Symposion

St. Anslem’s Ontological Argument as Expressive: A Wittgensteinian Reconstruction (2014)

With Michael Hodges. Philosophical Investigations

A Further Note on Individualism and Contrastivism: Reply to Sawyer (2014)

With Thomas Dabay. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

Contrastivism and Individualism: A Reply to Sawyer (2014)

With Thomas Dabay. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

All Philosophers Go to Hell: Dante and the Problem of Infernal Punishment (2014)

With Jason Aleksander. Sophia

2013

Responsible Sports Spectatorship and the Problem of Fantasy Leagues (2013)

International Journal of Applied Philosophy

Stoicism Integration Problem and Epictetus’ Metaphors (2013)

Southwest Philosophy Review

A Justification of Faith (2013)

Philosophical Papers

Skeptical Theism, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Commands (2013)

With Brian Ribero. International Journal for the Study of Skepticism

Nicholas of Cusa’s De pace fide and the Meta-Exclusivism of Religious Pluralism (2013)

With Jason Aleksander. International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion

2014

You Would Sing Another Tune: Subjunctive Tu Quoque Arguments (2012)

With Collin Anderson and John Casey. Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines

The Regress Argument for Skepticism (2012)

Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy First Edition

Pregnant Premise Arguments (2012)

Informal Logic

Poe’s Law, Group Polarization, and Argumentative Failure in Religious and Political Discourse (2012)

Social Semiotics

On Epistemic Abstemiousness and Diachronic Norms: A Reply to Bundy (2012)

With Michael Harbour, Jonathan Neufeld, and Robert Talisse. Logos & Epistime

Prospects for A Levinasian Epistemic Infinitism (2012)

With J. Aaron Simmons. International Journal of Philosophical Studies

2011

Argument in Mixed Company: Mom’s Maxim VS. Mill’s Principle (2011)

With Robert B. Talisse. Think

Three Challenges to Jamesian Ethics (2011)

With Robert B. Tailsse. William James Studies

A Defense of War and Sport Metaphors in Argument (2011)

Philosophy and Rhetoric

The Rhetorical Theory of Argument is Self-Defeating (2011)

Cogency

The Ad Hominem Argument Against ‘Knowledge is True Belief’: A Reply to Martens (2011)

European Journal of Applied Philosophy

On Epistemic Abstemiousness: A Reply to Bundy (2011)

With Michael Harbour, Jonathan Neufeld, and Robert Talisse. Logos & Episteme

Straw Men, Weak Men, and Hollow Men (2011)

With John Casey. Argumentation

2010

The Problem of Worship (2010)

Think

‘Knowledge is True Belief’ Rebutted (2010)

European Journal of Applied Philosophy

The Problem of the Criterion and Hegel’s Model for Epistemic Infinitism (2010)

History of Philosophy Quarterly

Nagel on Public Education and Intelligent Design (2010)

With Michael Harbour and Robert B. Tailisse. Journal of Philosophical Research

Epistemic Abstainers, Epistemic Martyrs, and Epistemic Converts (2010)

With Michael Harbour, Jonathan Neufeld, and Robert Talisse. Logos & Epistime

The Ethics of Inquiry and Engagement: The Case of Science in Public (2010)

With Michael D. Harbour. Public Affairs Quarterly

Developing Group-Deliberative Virtues (2010)

With J. Caleb Clanton. Journal of Applied Philosophy

2009

Prospects for Peircean Epistemic Infinitism (2009)

Contemporary Pragmatism

Evolution, Intelligent Design, and Public Education: A comment on Thomas Nagel (2009)

With Michael Harbour and Robert B. Talisse. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science

The Significance of Al Gore’s Purported Hypocrisy (2009)

Environmental Ethics

Don’t Fear the Regress: Cognitive Values and Epistemic Infinitism (2009)

Think

The Truth about Hypocrisy (2009)

With Robert B. Talisse. Perspectives

Levinasian Otherism, Skepticism, and the Problem of Self-Refutation (2009)

With J. Aaron Simmons. The Philosophical Forum

A Consistency Challenge for Moral and Religious Beliefs (2009)

With Brian Ribero. Teaching Philosophy

Pragmatism, Experience, and the Given (2009)

Human Affairs

2008

Tu Quoque Arguments and the Significance of Hypocrisy (2008)

Informal Logic

Perelmanian Universal Audience and the Epistemic Aspirations of Argument (2008)

Philosophy & Rhetoric

Meta-Epistemology and the Varieties of Epistemic Infinitism (2008)

Synthese

Holding One’s Own (2008)

Argumentation

Evidentialism and James’ Argument from Friendship

Southwest Philosophy Review

The Dogma of Environmental Revelation (2008)

Ethics and the Environment

Three Objections to the Epistemic Theory of Argument Rebutted (2008)

Argumentation and Advocacy

Rockmore on Analytic Pragmatism (2008)

With Robert B. Talisse. Metaphilosophy

Modus Tonens (2008)

With Robert B. Talisse. Argumentation

2007

Evidentialism For Everyone (2007)

Think

2006

Kitcher on the Ethics of Inquiry (2007)

With Robert B. Talisse. Journal of Social Philosophy

Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Phenomenology (2006)

Human Studies

Democratic Deliberation, Public Reason, and Environmental Politics (2006)

Environmental Philosophy

Prospects for Skeptical Foundationalism (2007)

Metaphilosophy

Two Forms of the Straw Man (2006)

With Robert B. Talisse. Argumentation

Wittgenstein, Dewey, and the Possibility of Religion (2006)

With Michael P. Hodges. Journal of Speculative Philosophy

Argumentative Norms in Republic I (2006)

With Mark Anderson. Philosophy in the Contemporary World

2005

Modest Evidentialism (2006)

International Philosophical Quarterly

Contrastive Self-Attribution of Belief (2006)

Social Epistemology

Who is Afraid of Epistemology’s Regress Problem? (2005)

Philosophical Studies

Still Searching for a Pragmatist Pluralist (2005)

With Robert B. Tallise. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

Why Pragmatists Cannot be Pluralists (2005)

With Robert B. Tallise. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society