Dean's Fellow

Research Interests
Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science

Career
Trent Dougherty (MA, Missouri, 2004, Jon Kvanvig Director) took up the Dean's Fellowship at the University of Rochester in the Fall of 2005 where his dissertation "Against Pragmatic Encroachment" is directed by Rich Feldman.  He was previously Kline Chair Research Fellow at the University of Missouri (2001-2004) where he managed the Kline Workshops.  He is a big fan of Timothy Williamson (with whom he disagrees on about everything) and not very original which explains the format of this page. 

Trent is a regular contributor to Prosblogion, JanusBlog, and the official Epistemic Value blog of the Knowledge, Mind and Value project at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. 

He is also administrator of the unOfficial Blog of the University of Rochester.  He sometimes refers to himself in the third person.                 

Course Home Page             Personal Home Page             Philosophy Blog            CV                   

Trent "dot" Dougherty "at" Rochester.edu           

Selected Papers 

"Fallibilism, Epistemic Possibility, and Concessive Knowledge Attributions" (with Patrick Rysiew, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research)
"Realizing Virtue: A Unified Virtue Epistemology" (being revised)
"Baehr on Evidence and Virtue: E-relevant or Irrelevant?"
"Divine Hiddenness and the Nature of Belief" (with Ted Poston, forthcoming in Religious Studies)
"Hell if I know: A Response to Sider's Vagueness Argument" (with Ted Poston, forthcoming Faith and Philosophy)
"Knowledge and Context Sensitive Norms: A Defense of Simple Moderate Invariantism" (Updated March 7)
"A Probabilistic Semantics for Epistemic Possibility"
"Epistemological Considerations Concerning Skeptical Theism" (forthcoming in Faith and Philosophy)
"A User's Guide to Design Arguments" (with Ted Poston, forthcoming in Religious Studies)
"Scoring the Hasker/Zagzebski Debate: Dougherty on Zagzebski on Hasker on Plantinga on Pike"
"Conceivability, Defeasibility, and Possibility: A Defense of the Modal Ontological Argument"

 

Book Reviews

John Leslie, Infinite Minds (published in Religious Studies Review)
Sosa and BonJour, Epistemic Justification (published in the Review of Metaphysics)
Richard Swinburne, Epistemic Justification (published in Philosophia Christi)
 

In progress

"Causation and Dependence: A Counterexample by way of a Fable"
"Dispositions: A Constitution Approach"