Justin P Mcbrayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1242157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin P Mcbrayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbrayer |
| SIGNATURE | MCBRAYER J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fort Lewis College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9539-1635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Caveat Auditor
To place epistemic trust in someone is to take their word for something. Much of the existing literature on epistemic trust concerns epistemic authorities. But as important as authority is to epistemic trust, it pales in comparison to the epistemic importance of conflicts of interests. In economics, we say that buyers shouldn’t take the word of sellers. Caveat emptor: let the buyer beware. I argue for a similar principle in epistemology. Caveat a…
Positionality and Its Problems
There has been a remarkable push for the use of positionality statements—also known as reflexivity statements—in scientific-journal articles and other research literatures. Grounded in reputable philosophical traditions, positionality statements are meant to address genuine concerns about the limits of knowledge production. However, there are at least three reasons why they should be avoided in scholarship. First, it is impossible to construct cr…
Everybody else is thinking it, so why can’t we
Beyond Fake News
The world is swimming in misinformation. Conflicting messages bombard us every day with news on everything from politics and world events to investments and alternative health. The daily paper, nightly news, websites, and social media each compete for our attention and each often insist on a different version of the facts. Inevitably, we have questions: Who is telling the truth? How would we know? How did we get here? What can we do? Beyond Fake …
John Corvino, "What’s Wrong With Homosexuality?"
Scepticism about the argument from divine hiddenness
Some philosophers have argued that the paucity of evidence for theism – along with basic assumptions about God's nature – is ipso facto evidence for atheism. The resulting argument has come to be known as the argument from divine hiddenness. Theists have challenged both the major and minor premises of the argument by offering defences. However, all of the major, contemporary defences are failures. What unites these failures is instructive: each i…
Skeptical Theism
Most a posteriori arguments against the existence of God take the following form: If God exists, the world would not be like this (where ‘this’ picks out some feature of the world like the existence of evil, etc.) But the world is like this . Therefore, God does not exist. Skeptical theists are theists who are skeptical of our ability to make judgments of the sort expressed by premise (1). According to skeptical theism, if there were a God, it is…
Skeptical Theism
Most a posteriori arguments against the existence of God take the following form: If God exists, the world would not be like this (where ‘this’ picks out some feature of the world like the existence of evil, etc.) But the world is like this . Therefore, God does not exist. Skeptical theists are theists who are skeptical of our ability to make judgments of the sort expressed by premise (1). According to skeptical theism, if there were a God, it is…
Skeptical Theism
Most a posteriori arguments against the existence of God take the following form: If God exists, the world would not be like this (where ‘this’ picks out some feature of the world like the existence of evil, etc.) But the world is like this . Therefore, God does not exist. Skeptical theists are theists who are skeptical of our ability to make judgments of the sort expressed by premise (1). According to skeptical theism, if there were a God, it is…
Scepticism about the argument from divine hiddenness
Some philosophers have argued that the paucity of evidence for theism – along with basic assumptions about God's nature – is ipso facto evidence for atheism. The resulting argument has come to be known as the argument from divine hiddenness. Theists have challenged both the major and minor premises of the argument by offering defences. However, all of the major, contemporary defences are failures. What unites these failures is instructive: each i…
John Corvino, "What’s Wrong With Homosexuality?"
Beyond Fake News
The world is swimming in misinformation. Conflicting messages bombard us every day with news on everything from politics and world events to investments and alternative health. The daily paper, nightly news, websites, and social media each compete for our attention and each often insist on a different version of the facts. Inevitably, we have questions: Who is telling the truth? How would we know? How did we get here? What can we do? Beyond Fake …
Everybody else is thinking it, so why can’t we
Positionality and Its Problems
There has been a remarkable push for the use of positionality statements—also known as reflexivity statements—in scientific-journal articles and other research literatures. Grounded in reputable philosophical traditions, positionality statements are meant to address genuine concerns about the limits of knowledge production. However, there are at least three reasons why they should be avoided in scholarship. First, it is impossible to construct cr…
Caveat Auditor
To place epistemic trust in someone is to take their word for something. Much of the existing literature on epistemic trust concerns epistemic authorities. But as important as authority is to epistemic trust, it pales in comparison to the epistemic importance of conflicts of interests. In economics, we say that buyers shouldn’t take the word of sellers. Caveat emptor: let the buyer beware. I argue for a similar principle in epistemology. Caveat a…
Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (2 works)