Andrew Jewell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Jewell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Jewell |
| SIGNATURE | JEWELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3497-8261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The power to believe for reasons
An influential view of believing for reasons holds that the reasons for which we believe are causes of our believing. This view has well-known difficulties accounting for the problem of deviant causal chains. I diagnose these difficulties and argue that the problem arises for the causal view because it uses an impoverished set of resources. I offer a novel causal account of believing for reasons that avoids the problem of causal deviance by appea…
Why Obscure the Record
This essay provides an explanation for American author Willa Cather’s confounding decision to ban the publication of her letters, arguing that one must understand the specific personal and psychological contexts of the execution of her final will in 1943. Since the ban on publication has now been lifted by Cather’s executors, the essay uses ample direct evidence from the letters themselves to analyze the concerns that led to Cather’s choice. I ar…
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Why Obscure the Record
This essay provides an explanation for American author Willa Cather’s confounding decision to ban the publication of her letters, arguing that one must understand the specific personal and psychological contexts of the execution of her final will in 1943. Since the ban on publication has now been lifted by Cather’s executors, the essay uses ample direct evidence from the letters themselves to analyze the concerns that led to Cather’s choice. I ar…
The power to believe for reasons
An influential view of believing for reasons holds that the reasons for which we believe are causes of our believing. This view has well-known difficulties accounting for the problem of deviant causal chains. I diagnose these difficulties and argue that the problem arises for the causal view because it uses an impoverished set of resources. I offer a novel causal account of believing for reasons that avoids the problem of causal deviance by appea…
American and British Literature Analysis (1 work) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work) · Grief (1 work) · History (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (1 work) · Philosophy and History of Science (1 work)