Research & Publications
My work is organized around a broad epistemological concern: how finite human beings can think well in complex social, technological, and religious environments. This page introduces the main areas of my research and collects selected publications and working papers connected to them.
Generative AI is changing the conditions under which people acquire beliefs online. I am especially interested in digital testimony, skeptical challenges posed by AI-generated counterfeits, and how educational assessment should respond to LLMs.
My earlier work in virtue epistemology and intellectual humility asks what traits help human knowers remain responsive to truth amid disagreement, uncertainty, limitation, and bias.
Intellectual HumilityVirtue EpistemologyIntellectual Humility MOOC
Experimental philosophy brings empirical methods to bear on philosophical questions about judgment, intuition, belief, and reasoning. Much of my recent work develops experimental philosophy of religion as a research program.
Launching Experimental Philosophy of ReligionOpen-access Religious Studies issue
I study how people acquire, revise, sustain, and sometimes abandon deep commitments—including religious and areligious beliefs—and how context, narrative, and psychology shape the way people interpret suffering, doubt, and longing.
Books
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. A defense of non-reductive virtue epistemology against the background of the Gettier problem and the analysis of knowledge.
With Peter L. Samuelson. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. An interdisciplinary introduction to intellectual humility across philosophy, psychology, education, and social life.
Co-edited with Robert J. Hartman. Routledge, 2019. A major interdisciplinary collection on luck, including epistemic luck, moral luck, free will, psychology, and related debates.
Current work
A paper arguing that generative AI threatens online knowledge not merely by producing falsehoods, but by changing the epistemic environment in which digital beliefs are formed.
Working paper PDFR&R at Analysis
With Justin L. Barrett, Blake McAllister, and James S. Spiegel. A follow-up study on why adding context changes judgments about Rowe-style suffering.
Working paper PDFUnder review
Selected articles & chapters
Philosophy Compass, 2024. A concise introduction to experimental philosophy of religion as a research area.
With Blake McAllister, Paul Rezkalla, and Long Nguyen. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, 2024.
With Blake McAllister and James Spiegel. Religious Studies, open-access special issue.
A chapter connecting intellectual humility with testimony and epistemic injustice.
A chapter in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck.
For a full list of publications, talks, service, grants, and teaching, see the CV.