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