Some Recent Publications

Knowledge, Adequacy, and Approximate Truth. Consciousness and Cognition

Do you have to be exactly right in order to know something, or can approximations suffice?

Descartes’s Schism, Locke’s Reunion

Whether a person should pursue a course of action is unquestionably very powerfully and directly connected to knowledge.

Knowledge before belief

Which mental state is more basic?

Error Possibility, Contextualism, and Bias

How does the risk of making a mistake impact knowledge judgments?

Theoretical Motivation of “Ought Implies Can"

Accepting this principle wreaks havoc in ethics!

Actionability Judgments Cause Knowledge Judgments

How does acting relate to knowing?

Epistemic Injustice in Social Cognition

There’s evidence that silencing can cause misrepresentations of knowledge and, subsequently, epistemic injustice to occur

Implicit attitudes and the ability argument

Yes, you are responsible.

Knowledge and truth: A skeptical challenge

Does requiring truth for knowledge mean we know hardly anything?

Impossible Intentions

Can you intend to do what you believe is impossible?

Natural Compatibilism, Indeterminism, and Intrusive Metaphysics

Can you resist the call of indeterministic metaphysics?

Companion to Experimental Philosophy

What is it all about and what has been discovered?

Volumes

Companion to Experimental Philosophy (2016). Sytsma, J., & Buckwalter, W. (Eds). Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series. Hoboken: Wiley.

Read the introduction here to find out what experimental philosophy is all about.

Journal Articles and Chapters

In press

Barrett, C., Buckwalter, W., et al. (in press). Dimensions of Wisdom Perception Across Five Continents. Nature Communications.

Buckwalter, W., & Friedman, O. (in press). Robust evidence for knowledge attribution and luck. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

Buckwalter, W. & Turri, J. (in press). Toxic Intentions. Inquiry.

Buckwalter, W. (in press). ‘Believe’ versus ‘Think’ versus ‘Know’. The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief. Eds. Van Leeuwen, N. & Lombrozo, T. Oxford University Press.

2024

Buckwalter, W. (2024). A Guide to Thought Experiments in Epistemology. Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, 3rd Edition. Eds. Eds. Roeber, B., Steup, M., Turri, J., & Sosa, E. Blackwell. 209-217.

Buckwalter, W. (2024). Thinking about Using Thought Experiments: Further Questions. Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, 3rd Edition. Eds. Roeber, B., Steup, M., Turri, J., & Sosa, E. Blackwell. 222-228.

2023

Buckwalter, W. (2023). The Belief Norm of Academic Publishing. Ergo. 9(54).

2022

Buckwalter, W. (2022). The Replication Crisis and Philosophy. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 3.

Buckwalter, W. (2022). The Demand and Desert Functions of Moral Judgment. Philosophical Psychology. 35(7), 1015-1035.

2021

Buckwalter, W., Rose, D., & Turri, J. (2021). Impossible Intentions. American Philosophical Quarterly 58(4) 319-332.

Buckwalter, W. (2021). Error Possibility, Contextualism, and Bias. Synthese. 198, 2413–2426.

Phillips, J., Buckwalter, W., Cushman, F., Friedman, O., Martin, A., Turri, J., Santos, L., & Knobe, J., (2021). Knowledge before Belief. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44(e140).

Phillips, J., Buckwalter, W., Cushman, F., Friedman, O., Martin, A., Turri, J., Santos, L., & Knobe, J., (2021). Actual Knowledge. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44(e177).

2020

Buckwalter, W. & Turri, J. (in press). Inability and Obligation in Intellectual Evaluation. Episteme.

Nadelhoffer, T., Rose, D., Buckwalter, W., and Nichols, S. (in press). Natural Compatibilism, Indeterminism, and Intrusive Metaphysics. Cognitive Science.

Buckwalter, W., & Peterson, A. (2020). Public attitudes toward allocating scarce resources in the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 15(11), e0240651.

Buckwalter, W. & Turri, J. (2020). Knowledge, Adequacy, and Approximate Truth. Consciousness and Cognition 83, 102950.

Nolte, A., Buckwalter, W., Rose, D., and Turri, J. (2020). Deciding Without Intending. Journal of Cognition 3(1), 12.

Buckwalter, W. (2020). Mind-Brain Dichotomy, Mental Disorder, and Theory of Mind. Erkenntnis 85, 511–526.

Buckwalter, W., and Turri, J. (2020). Knowledge and Truth: A Skeptical Challenge. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101, 93-101.

Buckwalter, W. (2020). Theoretical Motivation of “Ought Implies Can”. Philosophia 48, 83-94.

2019

Buckwalter, W. (2019). Implicit Attitudes and the Ability Argument. Philosophical Studies 176, 2961–2990.

Buckwalter, W. (2019). Epistemic Injustice in Social Cognition. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97(2), 294-308.

2018

Turri, J., Rose, D., & Buckwalter, W. (2018). Choosing and Refusing: Doxastic Voluntarism and Folk Psychology. Philosophical Studies 175, 2507-2537.

Buckwalter, W., & Turri, J. (2018). Moderate Scientism in Philosophy. Scientism: prospects and problems. Eds. de Ridder, J., Peels, R., & von Woudenberg, R., New York: Oxford University Press.

Blouw, P., Buckwalter, W., & Turri, J. (2018). Gettier Cases: A Taxonomy. Explaining Knowledge: New Essays on the Gettier problem. Eds. Borges, R., de Almeida, C., & Klein, P., New York: Oxford University Press, 242-252.

2017

Buckwalter, W. (2017). Epistemic Contextualism and Linguistic Behavior. Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism. Ed. Ichikawa, J. J. Routledge. 44-56.

Buckwalter, W., & Tullmann, K. (2017). The Genuine Attitude View of Fictional Belief. Art and the Nature of Belief. Eds. Bradley, H., Sullivan-Bissett, E., & Noordhof, P. New York: Oxford University Press, 194-209.

Buckwalter, W. (2017). Ability, responsibility, and global justice. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research 34(3), 577-590.

Buckwalter, W., Turri, J. (2017). In the Thick of Moral Motivation. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 8(2), 433-453.

Rose, D., Buckwalter, W., & Nichols, S. (2017). Neuroscientific Prediction and the Intrusion of Intuitive Metaphysics. Cognitive Science 41(2), 482-502.

Turri, J., & Buckwalter, W. (2017). Descartes’s Schism, Locke’s Reunion: Completing the Pragmatic Turn in Epistemology. American Philosophical Quarterly 54(1), 25-46.

2016

Buckwalter, W. (2016). Intuition Fail: Philosophical Activity and the Limits of Expertise. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92(2), 378-410.

Turri, J., Buckwalter, W., & Rose, D. (2016). Actionability Judgments Cause Knowledge Judgments. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 5(3), 212-222.

Buckwalter, W. & Turri, J. (2016). Perceived Weaknesses of Philosophical Inquiry: A Comparison to Psychology. Philosophia 44(1), 33-52.

2015

Buckwalter, W., Rose, D, & Turri, J. (2015). Belief through Thick and Thin. Noûs 49(4), 748-775.

Buckwalter, W., & Schaffer, J. (2015). Knowledge, Stakes, and Mistakes. Noûs 49(2): 201-234.

Buckwalter, W., Turri, J. (2015). Inability and Obligation in Moral Judgment. PLOS ONE 10(8), e0136589.

Turri, J., Buckwalter, W., & Blouw, P. (2015). Knowledge and Luck. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 22(2), 378-390.

2014

Rose, D., Buckwalter, W. & Turri, J. (2014). When Words Speak Louder Than Actions: Delusion, Belief and the Power of Assertion. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92(4), 683-700.

Buckwalter, W. (2014). Factive Verbs and Protagonist Projection. Episteme 11(4), 391-409.

Tullmann, K., & Buckwalter, W. (2014). Does the Paradox of Fiction Exist? Erkenntnis 79(4), 779-796.

Buckwalter, W., & Turri, J. (2014). Telling, Showing and Knowing: A Unified Theory of Pedagogical Norms. Analysis 74(1), 16-20.

Mizrahi, M., & Buckwalter, W. (2014). The Role of Justification in the Ordinary Concept of Scientific Progress. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 45(1), 151-166.

Colaço, D., Buckwalter, W., Stich, S. & Machery, M. (2014). Epistemic Intuitions in Fake-Barn Thought Experiments. Episteme 11(2), 199-212.

Buckwalter, W. (2014). Gettier made ESEE. Philosophical Psychology 27(3), 368-383.

Buckwalter, W., & Phelan, M. (2014). Phenomenal Consciousness Disembodied. Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Mind, Ed. Sytsma, J., London: Bloomsbury Press, 45-74.

2013

Buckwalter, W., & Phelan, M. (2013). Function and Feeling Machines: A Defense of the Philosophical Conception of Subjective Experience. Philosophical Studies 166, 349-361.

2012

Buckwalter, W. (2012). Non-Traditional Factors in Judgments About Knowledge. Philosophy Compass 7, 278-289.

Phelan, M., & Buckwalter, W. (2012). Analytic Functionalism and Mental State Attribution. Philosophical Topics 40(2), 129-154.

Buckwalter, W. (2012). Surveying Philosophers: A Response to Kuntz & Kuntz. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 3, 515-524.

Tobia, K., Buckwalter, W., & Stich, S. (2012). Moral Intuitions: Are Philosophers Experts? Philosophical Psychology 26(5), 629-638.

Knobe, J., Buckwalter, W., Robbins, T., Sarkissian, H., Sommers, T., & Nichols, S. (2012). Experimental Philosophy. Annual Review of Psychology 63, 81-99.

2011

Buckwalter, W., & Stich, S. (2011). Competence, Reflective Equilibrium and Dual System Theories. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34, 251–252.

2010

Beebe, J., & Buckwalter, W. (2010). The Epistemic Side-Effect Effect. Mind & Language 25, 474-498.

Buckwalter, W. (2010). Knowledge Isn’t Closed on Saturdays. Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1, 395-406.