William David Rowley

University of Rochester, Philosophy, Alumna

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I received my PhD at the University of Rochester. My dissertation, An Evidentialist Epistemology of Testimony, was completed under Richard Feldman's direction in 2016.

My dissertation a) provides a unified evidentialist social epistemology, b) develops a higher-level reductionist epistemology of testimony, and c) defends reductionism in the epistemology of testimony.

In addition to analytic social epistemology, I am interested in the nature of epistemic justification, evidence, and knowledge.
Supervisors: Richard Feldman, Earl Conee, and Edward Wierenga
Address: Rochester, New York, United States

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Pick Your Poison: Beg the Question or Embrace Circularity

by William David Rowley and Kevin McCain

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2014

, there are three ways to respond to the Problem of the Criterion and they all leave something to... more , there are three ways to respond to the Problem of the Criterion and they all leave something to be desired. Michael have each proposed variations of a fourth way of responding to this problem that rely on reflective equilibrium. We argue that these four options for responding to the Problem of the Criterion leave one with a tough choice: accept one of the three that Chisholm describes or DePaul's reflective equilibrium approach and beg the question or accept a reflective equilibrium response of the sort Conee and Moser propose and embrace epistemic circularity.

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Pick Your Poison: Beg the Question or Embrace Circularity

According to Roderick Chisholm, there are three ways of responding to the Problem of the Criterio... more According to Roderick Chisholm, there are three ways of responding to the Problem of the Criterion and they all leave something to be desired. Michael DePaul, Paul Moser, and Earl Conee have each proposed variations of a fourth way of responding to this problem that rely on reflective equilibrium. We argue that these four options for responding to the Problem of the Criterion leave one with a tough choice: accept one of the three that Chisholm describes or DePaul’s reflective equilibrium approach and beg the question or accept a reflective equilibrium response of the sort Conee and Moser propose and embrace epistemic circularity.

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Evidence of Evidence and Testimonial Reductionism

Abstract: An objection to reductionism in the epistemology of testimony that is often repeated bu... more Abstract: An objection to reductionism in the epistemology of testimony that is often repeated but rarely defended in detail is that there is not enough positive evidence to provide the non-testimonial, positive reasons reductionism requires. Thus, on pain of testimonial skepticism, reductionism must be rejected. Call this argument the ‘Not Enough Evidence Objection’ (or ‘NEEO’). I will defend reductionism about testimonial evidence against the NEEO by arguing that we typically have non-testimonial positive reasons in the form of evidence about our testifier’s evidence. With a higher-level evidence principle borrowed from recent work on the epistemology of disagreement, I argue that, granting some plausible assumptions about conversational norms, the NEEO is unsound.

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Pick Your Poison: Beg the Question or Embrace Circularity

by William David Rowley and Kevin McCain

International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 2014

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Pick Your Poison: Beg the Question or Embrace Circularity

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Evidence of Evidence and Testimonial Reductionism

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