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Professor Philosophy acasullo@unl.edu (402) 472-2425 315J Louise Pound Hall

Curriculum Vitae

Representative publications:

Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Table of Contents

 "Intuition, Thought Experiments, and the A Priori,"

"Counterfactuals and Modal Knowledge," 

"Conceivability and Modal Knowledge,"

"Articulating the A Priori-A Posteriori Distinction," 

The A Priori in Philosophy,  co-edited with J. Thurow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Table of Contents

"Four Challenges to the A Priori-A Posteriori Distinction," Synthese 119 (2015): 2701-2724.

"A Defense of the Significance of the A Priori - A Posteriori Distinction,"  in D. Dodd & E. Zardini, eds., The A Priori: Its Significance, Sources, and Extent (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

"Pollock and Sturgeon on Defeaters," Synthese 195 (2018): 2897-2906.

"Modal Empiricism: What is the Problem?" in T. Gendler & J. Hawthorne, eds., Oxford Studies in Epistemology 6 (2019): 58-84.

"Essence and Explanation," Metaphysics 2 (2020): 88-96.

“Is Knowledge of Essence the Basis of Modal Knowledge?,” Res Philosophica 97 (2020): 593-609.

"Modality and A Priori Knowledge," in O. Bueno and S. Shalkowski, eds., Routledge Handbook of Modality (Routledge, 2021).

Professor Casullo teaches graduate courses in epistemology. His publications focus on a priori knowledge, modal knowledge and intuitions. He is the author of A Priori Justification and Essays on A Priori Knowledge and Justification, and co-editor of The A Priori in Philosophy (all published by Oxford University Press.)