I was a lecturer in philosophy at Monash University from 2013-2016 and I am presently a visiting faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. I completed my PhD in 2013 at the University of Connecticut. My current research is primarily in epistemology, but I also work in metaphysics and ethics. My website is here.
Paul Silva
Visiting Faculty
Research Interests
epistemology, metaphysics, ethics
Selected Publications
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"Explaining Enkratic Asymmetries: Knowledge-First Style," forthcoming, Philosophical Studies.
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"Justified Group Belief is Evidentially Responsible Group Belief," forthcoming, Episteme.
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“Etiological Information and Diminishing Justification,” forthcoming, Inquiry.
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“Knowing How to Put Knowledge First in The Theory of Justification,” forthcoming, Episteme.
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“How Doxastic Justification Helps Us Solve the Puzzle of Misleading Higher-Order Evidence,” forthcoming, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
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“Justification: Propositional, Doxastic, Personal” to appear in The Routledge Companion to Evidence, edited by Maria Lasonen-Aarnio & Trent Dougherty (invited contribution).
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“How To Be Conservative: A Partial Defense of Epistemic Conservatism,” 2013, Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
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“Ordinary Objects and Series-Style Answers to the Special Composition Question,” 2013, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
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“Epistemically Self-Defeating Arguments and Skepticism About Intuition,” 2013, Philosophical Studies.
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“Does Doxastic Justification Have a Basing Requirement?” 2015, Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
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“On Doxastic Justification and Properly Basing One’s Beliefs,” 2015, Erkenntnis.
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“The Composite Nature of Epistemic Justification,” 2016, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
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“Why Worry About Epistemic Circularity?” with M.P. Lynch, Journal of Philosophical Research, 2016 (invited contribution).
