Jennifer Nagel
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Biography:
- BA, University of Toronto
- MA, University of Pittsburgh
- PhD, University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer Nagel’s research focuses on knowledge, belief, and our capacities to track these states in ourselves and others. Prof. Nagel is interested in the history of epistemology, both in the Western tradition back to Plato, and in the Classical Indian and Tibetan traditions. She also works in contemporary philosophy of mind, with special interests in metacognition and mental state attribution.
For more information visit Prof. Nagel’s personal website.
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Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive SciencePublications:
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“Common Knowledge and its Limits”, forthcoming in Themes from Williamson, Alex Burri and Michael Frauchiger, eds., DeGruyter.
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“Reflection, Confabulation, and Reasoning”, forthcoming in Kornblith and his Critics, Joshua DiPaolo and Luis Oliveira, eds. Wiley-Blackwell.
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“Natural Curiosity”, in Putting Knowledge to Work: New Direction for Knowledge-First Epistemology, Arturs Logins and Jacques-Henri Vollet, eds. Oxford University Press, 2024, 170-200.
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“Seeking Safety in Knowledge”, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 97 (2023), 186-214.
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“New Frontiers in Epistemic Evaluation: Lackey on the epistemology of groups”, Res Philosophica 100:3 (2023), 405-413.
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“Responding to how things seem: Bergmann on skepticism and intuition”, Analysis 82:4 (2022), 697-709.
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“The Distinctive Character of Knowledge”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44 (2021), 47-48.
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“Mindreading in Conversation” (with Evan Westra), Cognition 210 (2021), 1-15.
Visit more of Jennifer Nagel’s publications on the Philosophy Faculty Bookshelf.