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    The Rational Mind.Scott Sturgeon - 2020 - Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
    Scott Sturgeon presents an original account of mental states and their dynamics. He develops a detailed story of coarse- and fine-grained mental states, a novel perspective on how they fit together, an engaging theory of the rational transitions between them, and a fresh view of how formal methods can advance our understanding in this area. In doing so, he addresses a deep four-way divide in literature on epistemic rationality. Formal epistemology is done in specialized languages--often seeming a lot more like (...)
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  2. Reason and the grain of belief.Scott Sturgeon - 2008 - Noûs 42 (1):139–165.
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    Matters of Mind: Consciousness, Reason and Nature.Scott Sturgeon - 2000 - New York: Routledge.
    _Matters of Mind_ examines the mind-body problem. It offers a chapter by chapter analysis of debates surrounding the problem, including visual experience, consciousness and the problem of Zombies and Ghosts. It will prove invaluable for those interested in epistemology, philosophy of mind and cognitive science.
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  4. Physicalism and overdetermination.Scott Sturgeon - 1998 - Mind 107 (426):411-432.
    I argue that our knowledge of the world's causal structure does not generate a sound argument for physicalism. This undermines the popular view that physicalism is the only scientifically respectable worldview.
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  5. (1 other version)Confidence and coarse-grained attitudes.Scott Sturgeon - 2005 - In Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Oxford University Press. pp. 3--126.
  6. (1 other version)Disjunctivism about visual experience.Scott Sturgeon - 2008 - In Adrian Haddock & Fiona Macpherson (eds.), Disjunctivism: perception, action, knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 112--143.
     
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    The Epistemic View of Subjectivity.Scott Sturgeon - 1994 - Journal of Philosophy 91 (5):221-235.
  8. (1 other version)Pollock on defeasible reasons.Scott Sturgeon - 2012 - Philosophical Studies (1):1-14.
  9. The Tale of Bella and Creda.Scott Sturgeon - 2015 - Philosophers' Imprint 15.
    Some philosophers defend the view that epistemic agents believe by lending credence. Others defend the view that such agents lend credence by believing. It can strongly appear that the disagreement between them is notational, that nothing of substance turns on whether we are agents of one sort or the other. But that is demonstrably not so. Only one of these types of epistemic agent, at most, could manifest a human-like configuration of attitudes; and it turns out that not both types (...)
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  10. The Gettier Problem.Scott Sturgeon - 1993 - Analysis 53 (3):156-164.
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  11. The epistemic basis of subjectivity.Scott Sturgeon - 1994 - Journal of Philosophy 91 (5):221-35.
  12. Visual experience.Scott Sturgeon - 1998 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98 (1):179-200.
    I argue against a Disjunctive approach to visual experience. I then critique three 'common-factor' views: Qualia Theory, Intentionalism and Sense-Date Theory. The latter two are combined to form Intentional Trope Theory; and that view is defended.
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  13. Reflective disjunctivism.Scott Sturgeon - 2006 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 80 (1):185–216.
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    Disjunctivism.John Hawthorne & Scott Sturgeon - 2006 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 80 (1):145-216.
    [John Hawthorne] We examine some well-known disjunctivist projects in the philosophy of perception, mainly in a critical vein. Our discussion is divided into four parts. Following some introductory remarks, we examine in part two the link between object-dependent contents and disjunctivism. In part three, we explore the disjunctivist's use of discriminability facts as a basis for understanding experience. In part four, we examine an interesting argument for disjunctivism that has been offered by Michael Martin. /// [Scott Sturgeon] The paper aims (...)
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    II—Scott Sturgeon: Reflective Disjunctivism.Scott Sturgeon - 2006 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 80 (1):185-216.
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    When Epistemic Models Misfire: Lessons for Everyday Rationality.Scott Sturgeon - 2024 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 124 (1):1-28.
    Three natural assumptions about rationality lead to conflict when they are formalized in natural ways. The paper examines how the assumptions are built into formal frameworks and why they lead to conflict. Several lessons are learned for the type of rationality ordinary people manifest in everyday life.
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  17. (1 other version)Epistemology.Scott Sturgeon, M. G. F. Martin & A. C. Grayling - 1995 - In A. C. Grayling (ed.), Philosophy 1: A Guide Through the Subject. New York: Oxford University Press.
     
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  18. Conceptual gaps and odd possibilities.Scott Sturgeon - 1999 - Mind 108 (430):377-380.
    Scott Sturgeon has claimed to undermine the principal argument for Physicalism, in his words, the view that ’actuality is exhausted by physical reality’. In noting that actuality is exhausted by physical reality, the Physicalist is not claiming that all that there is in actuality are those things identified by physics. Rather the thought is that actuality is made up of all the things identified by physics and anything which is a compound of these things. So there are tables as well (...)
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    Belief, Reason & Logic.Scott Sturgeon - 2009 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 64:89-100.
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  20. Normative judgement.Scott Sturgeon - 2007 - Philosophical Perspectives 21 (1):569–587.
  21. (1 other version)Undercutting Defeat and Edgington's Burglar.Scott Sturgeon - forthcoming - In Lee Walters John Hawthorne (ed.), Conditionals, Probability & Paradox: themes from the Philosophy of Dorothy Edgington.
    This paper does four things. First it lays out an orthodox position on reasons and defeaters. Then it argues that the position just laid out is mistaken about “undercutting” defeaters. Then the paper explains an unpublished thought experiment by Dorothy Edgington. And then it uses that thought experiment to motivate a new approach to undercutting defeaters.
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  22. Good reasoning and cognitive architecture.Scott Sturgeon - 1994 - Mind and Language 9 (1):88-101.
  23. Apriorism about Modality.Scott Sturgeon - 2010 - In Bob Hale & Aviv Hoffmann (eds.), Modality: metaphysics, logic, and epistemology. qnew York: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Reply to Comesaña.Scott Sturgeon - 2023 - Philosophical Studies 180 (10):3231-3252.
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    Rationality and Higher-order Awareness.Scott Sturgeon - 2022 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 99 (1):78-98.
    It is argued that higher-order awareness is central to one type of everyday rationality. The author starts by specifying the target notion of rationality, contrasting it with other useful notions in the neighbourhood. It is then shown that the target notion relies on first-person awareness of the unfolding of cognition. This is used to explain the kernel of truth in epistemic conservatism, the structure of defeasibility, and the root motive behind the widely accepted distinction between rational inference and trivial entailment.
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    Truth in Epistemology.Scott Sturgeon - 1991 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1):99-108.
  27. 1. evidential symmetry let's say that propositions P and Q are evidentially symmetrical (I'll write this asp & q) for a subject if his evidence no more supports one than the other. I mean to understand evidence very broadly here to encompass whatever we have.Sarah Moss Kotzen, James Overton, Agustin Rayo, Susanna Rinard, Teddy Seidenfeld, Mike Smithson, Scott Sturgeon, Elliott Sober & Bas van Fraassen - 2005 - In Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Oxford University Press. pp. 161.
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    Epistemology, Pettigrew Style: A Critical Notice of Accuracy and the Laws of Credence, by Richard Pettigrew1.Scott Sturgeon - 2019 - Mind 128 (512):1319-1336.
    The sharpest corner of the cutting edge of recent epistemology is to be found in Richard Pettigrew’s Accuracy and the Laws of Credence. In this fine book Pettigrew argues that a certain kind of accuracy-based value monism entails that rational credence manifests a host of features emphasized by anti-externalists in epistemology. Specifically, he demonstrates how a particular version of accuracy-based value monism—to be discussed at length below—when placed with some not implausible views about how epistemic value and rationality relate to (...)
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  29. 1. a credal approach to coarse attitudes.Scott Sturgeon - 2005 - In Tamar Szabó Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Oxford University Press. pp. 3--126.
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    A Look at Fatalism.Scott Sturgeon - unknown
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  31. ``Comments".Scott Sturgeon - 2002
     
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    Conditional Belief and the Ramsey Test.Scott Sturgeon - 2002 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 51:215-232.
    Consider the frame S believes that—. Fill it with a conditional, say If you eat an Apple, you'll drink a Coke. what makes the result true? More generally, what facts are marked by instances of S believes ? In a sense the answer is obious: beliefs are so marked. Yet that bromide leads directly to competing schools of thought. And the reason is simple. Common-sense thinks of belief two ways. Sometimes it sees it as a three-part affair. When so viewed (...)
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    (1 other version)Foley on causation and rationality.Scott Sturgeon - 1986 - Analysis 46 (4):62-64.
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  34. Having Reason in Mind.Scott Sturgeon - 1991 - Dissertation, The University of Arizona
    The project consists of a defense of the reductivist program generally and an application of the program to the theory of epistemic justification. ;Chapter One sets out the problem of reducing justification to other terms and defends the legitimacy of this problem against attacks by Quine in particular and supervenience theorists generally. Chapter Two is an explication and refutation of all possible theories which reduce justification-facts to facts about the reliability of cognitive processes. All such theories founder due to their (...)
     
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    Maximalism and mental processes.Scott Sturgeon - 1988 - Philosophical Studies 53 (2):309 - 314.
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    Modal infallibilism and basic truth.Scott Sturgeon - 2006 - In Fraser MacBride (ed.), Identity and modality. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 40.
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    Rational Mind and its Place in Nature.Scott Sturgeon - 1997 - In Mark Sainsbury (ed.), Thought and Ontology. Franco Angeli.
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  38. Stalnaker on sensuous knowledge.Scott Sturgeon - 2008 - Philosophical Studies 137 (2):183 - 203.
    Robert Stalnaker has recently argued that a pair of natural thoughts are incompatible. One of them is the view that items of non-indexical factual knowledge rule out possibilities. The other is the view that knowing what sensuous experience is like involves non-indexical knowledge of its phenomenal character. I argue against Stalnaker’s take on things, elucidating along the way how our knowledge of what experience is like fits together with the natural idea that items of non-indexical factual knowledge rule out possibilities.
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  39. The roots of reductionism.Scott Sturgeon - 2001 - In Carl Gillett & Barry Loewer (eds.), Physicalism and its Discontents. New York: Cambridge University Press.