Links to Selected Papers
Current Works in Progress:
Rationalizing Explanation and Rationality Naturalized. (This paper will be presented at the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, March 2009, Emory University. Download PDF
Epistemic Superpositions (with Terry Horgan), (A discussion of the Problem of Easy Knowledge.) To be posted soon.
In Epistemology:
(Many of the ideas presented in the papers below are developed more fully in a book Manuscript: The Epistemologiccal Spectrum (Henderson and Horgan) that is under review at Oxford University Press. We would be happy to share portions of this manuscript in exchange for comments.) Email David Henderson
"Epistemic Virtues and Cognitive Dispositions," (with Terry Horgan), in K. Steuber, G. Damschen, and R. Schnepf (eds.), Debating Dispositions: Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Berlin: DeGruyter (forthcoming). Download PDF
"Motivated Contextualism" Philosophical Studies (2009) 142:119-131. Download PDF
"Would You Really Rather Be Lucky Than Good? On the Normative Status of Naturalizing Epistemology" (with Terry Horgan), in Naturalism, Reference and Ontology: Essays in Honor of Roger F. Gibson, Chase Wrenn (ed), Lang Publishing (2008) pp. 47-76. Download PDF
"Testimonial Belief and Epistemic Competence," Nous (2008): 190-221. Download PDF
"Transglobal Reliabilism" (with Terry Horgan), Croatian Journal of Philosophy, (2006): 171-95. Download PDF
(A more developed version is to be found in, "The Ins and Outs of Transglobal Reliabilism" (with Terry Horgan), in Sanford Goldberg (ed.), Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology, Oxford University Press (2007), pp. 100-130.)
"Practicing Safe Epistemology," (with Terry Horgan), Philosophical Studies 102 (2001): 227-58. Download PDF
"Iceberg Epistemology." (with Terry Horgan), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61 (2000), 497-535. Download PDF
"Epistemic Competence and Contextualist Epistemology: Why Contextualism in Not Just the Poor Person's Coherentism," The Journal of Philosophy 91 (1994), 627-49. Download PDF
"Epistemic Competence," Philosophical Papers 23 (1994), 139-67. Download PDF
In the Philosophy of Social Science:
"Rationality and Rationalist Approaches in the Social Sciences" in Stephen Turner and William Outwaite (eds.), Handbook of Social Science Methodology, Sage Publishing (2007), pp. 282-301. Download PDF
"Norms, Invariance, and Explanatory Relevance," Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (2005): 324 - 338. Download PDF
"Norms, Normative Principles, and Explanation" Philosophy of Social Science 32 (2002), 329-364. Download PDF
"Conceptual Schemes After Davidson," in Preyer, Siebelt, and Ulfig (eds.), Language and Philosophy: On Donald Davidson's Philosophy. Kluwer (1994).Download PDF
"On the Testability of Psychological Generalizations," Philosophy of Science 58 (1991), 586-606. Download PDF
"The Principle of Charity and the Problem of Irrationality," in Synthese 73 (1987), 225-52. Download PDF
