Jonathan E. Adler

  Professor
  Department: Philosophy
  Location: 4300 Boylan Hall
  Phone: 718-951-5539
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Professor of Philosophy

Education:
D.Phil., Oxford University - 1978 (Philosophy)

Ph.D., Brandeis University - 1974 (Philosophy)

Areas of Expertise:
Epistemology, philosophy of psychology and education, informal logic, ethics.

Books and Publications
"Another Argument for the Knowledge Norm" Analysis 69: 407-412. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

"Argument Relevance as the Right Kind of Epistemic Reason" Journal of Logic and Computation: forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

"Resisting the Force of Argument" Journal of Philosophy CVI: 339-364. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

Review:Sanford C. Goldberg, Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification, Cambridge University Press, 2007. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009

"Conversation is the Folks' Epistemology" Philosophical Forum 39: 337-348. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Inferring Character from Reasoning: The Example of Euthyphro" American Philosophical Quarterly 48: 43-57 (with Iakovos Vasiliou).
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Presupposition, Attention, and Why Questions" in Reasoning: Studies of Human Inference and its Foundations Adler and Rips, eds.:748-764.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008

"Sticks and Stones: A Reply to Warren" Journal of Social Philosophy XXXIX: 639-655. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

"Surprise" Educational Theory 58: 149-174. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

Reasoning: Human Inference and Its Foundations Cambridge University Press (with Lance Rips). (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2008

"Asymmetrical Analogical Arguments," Argumentation 21: 83-92. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

"Conversation and Dissemblance" in Reason Reclaimed. H. Hanson and R. Pinto, eds. (Newport News Virginia: Vale Press, 2007): 201-212.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

"Distortion and Argumentation," Episteme 4: 382-401. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

"Faith and Fanaticism" Philosophers Without Gods, L. Anthony, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 266-285. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

"Moore's Paradox and the Transparency of Belief," (with Bradley Armour-Garb) Essays on Moore's Paradox, M. Green and J. Williams, eds.(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007): 146-162.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

Philosophical Inquiry: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Hackett, 2007) (with Catherine Z. Elgin).
(Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2007

"Confidence in Argument," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 2006: 225-258. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

"Epistemological Problems of Testimony," The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/testimony-episprob (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

"Withdrawal and Contextualism," Analysis (2006): 280-285. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

"Diversity, Social Inquiries, and Epistemic Virtues," Veritas 2005: 37-52. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Reliabilist Justification (or Knowledge) as a Good Truth-Ratio," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 85 2005: 445-458. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"William James and What Cannot be Believed," Harvard Review of Philosophy. XIII 2005: 65-79. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

Critical Notice: Richard Swinburne Epistemic Justification
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70: 739-742.
(Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

Critical Notice: Richard Swinburne Epistemic Justification, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 2005: 739-742. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

"Reading and Interpretation: A Heuristic for Improving Students? Comprehension of Philosophy Texts," Teaching Philosophy: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Suggestions T. Kasachkoff, ed. (Lanham, Maryland, 2004).(Reprinted from American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 94 1994: 149-152.)
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

"Reconciling Open-Mindedness and Belief," Theory and Research in Education 2 2004: 127-142. (Reported on in Chronicle of Higher Education Summer 2004). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

"Shedding Dialectical Tiers: A Social-Epistemic View," Argumentation 18 2004: 279-293. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2004

Review: Thinking About Knowing J. Rosenberg (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). Times Literary Supplement.
(Books and Publications: Other Article) 2004

"The Revisability Paradox," Philosophical Forum xxxiv 2003: 383-389. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003

"Truth, Knowledge, and Learning," A Companion to the Philosophy of Education R. Curren, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003): 285-304.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003

"Akratic Believing?" Philosophical Studies 110 2002: 1-27. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

"Conundrums of Doxastic Self-Control," The Monist 85 2002: 456-467. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

"Is the Generality Problem Too General?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXV 2002: 87-97. (with Michael Levin).
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

Belief's Own Ethics (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002). (Books and Publications: Book) 2002

Review: Common Sense, Reasoning, and Rationality R. Elio, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
(Books and Publications: Other Article) 2002

"Patronizing," Journal of Social Philosophy 32 4 Winter 2001: 621-635. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

"Reason, Relativism, and Liberal Religion" The Universalist Unitarian Christian Vol. 56: 141-144.
(Books and Publications: Other Article) 2001

"Reason, Relativism, and Liberal Religion" The Universalist Unitarian Christian Vol. 56: 141-144. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

"Belief and Negation," Informal Logic Vol. 20 2000: 207-222. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000

"Three Fallacies" Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2000

Review: In Defense of Radical Empiricism: Essays and Lectures by Roderick Firth John Troyer, ed. (New York: Rowman&Littlefield 1998) Philosophical Review 109: 453-456.
(Books and Publications: Other Article) 2000

"Affirming a Strawman: A Reply to Bowles," Argumentation 13 1999: 17-26. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999

"Epistemic Dependence, Diversity of Ideas, and a Value of Intellectual Vices," Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philophy Vol III: Philosophy of Education D.M. Steiner, ed. (Bowling Green University: Philosophical Documentation Center, 1999): 117-129. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1999

"The Ethics of Belief: Off the Wrong Track," Midwest Studies in Philosophy: New Directions in Philosophy Vol. XXIII (Oxford: Blackwell's, 1999): 267-285.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 1999

"Open Minds and the Argument from Ignorance," Skeptical Inquirer 22 1998: 41-44. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1998

"Rationality of Beliefs: Empirical Issues," The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998). (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1998

"Compromising Standards" American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy 97 Fall 1997: 110-112.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997

"Constrained Belief and the Reactive Attitudes," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LVII 1997: 891-905. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997

"Fallacies not fallacious: Not!" Philosophy and Rhetoric 30 1997: 333-350. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997

"If the base rates fallacy is a fallacy, does it matter how often it is committed" The Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997

"Lying, Deceiving, or Falsely Implicating" The Journal of Philosophy XCIV 1997: 1-18. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997

"Reply by Repetition and Reminder," Philosophy and Rhetoric 30 1997: 367-375.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997

"An Overlooked Argument for Epistemic Conservatism," Analysis 56 (1996): 80-84. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996

"Charity, Interpretation, Fallacy," Philosophy and Rhetoric 29 (1996): 329-343. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996

"Transmitting Knowledge," Nous 30 1996: 99-111. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996

"Fairness to Distinctions, Policies, and Intuitions," The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17: 10-11.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994

"Fallacies and Alternative Interpretations," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 1994: 271-282. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994

"More on Race and Crime: Levin's Reply," Journal of Social Philosophy 25 1994: 105-114.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994

"Self-Criticism: Praise, Problems, and Problems of Praise," in New Essays in Informal Logic R. Johnson and T. Blair, eds. (Informal Logic, University of Windsor, 1994): 104-115.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994

"Testimony, Trust, Knowing," The Journal of Philosophy XCI (1994): 264-275. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1994

"Crime Rates by Race and Causal Relevance: A Reply to Levin," Journal of Social Philosophy XXIV: 1993. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993

"Critique of an Epistemic Account of Fallacies," Argumentation 7 1993: 263-272. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993

"Indirect Learning and the Aims-Curriculum Fallacy," Journal of Philosophy of Education 27 1993: 223-232. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993

"Reasonableness, Bias and the Untapped Power of Procedure," Synthese 94 1993: 105-125. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993

"Even-Arguments, Explanatory Gaps, and Pragmatic Scales," Philosophy and Rhetoric 25 1992: 22-44. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1992

"An Optimist's Pessimism: Conversation and Conjunction," in Probability and Rationality (Amsterdam: Poznan, 1991) Ellery Eells and Tomasz Maruszewski, eds. 251-282. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1991

"Critical Thinking, A Deflated Defence: A Critical Study of John McPeck's Teaching Critical Thinking: Dialogue and Dialectic Informal Logic 13 1991. 61-78.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1991

"Double Standards, Equality, and the Right Reference Class," Journal of Applied Philosophy 8 1991. 69-81.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1991

"Conservatism and Tacit Confirmation," Mind 99 1990: 559-570. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1990

"Epistemic Universalizability: From Skepticism to Infallibilism" in Doubting: Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism G. Ross and M.D. Roth, eds. (K. Lehrer, general editor) Kluwer Publishing Co., 1989. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 1989

"Epistemics and the Total Evidence Requirement," Philosophia Vol. 19. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1989

"Particularity, Gilligan, and the Two Levels View: A Reply," Ethics Vol. 100 (Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism (the Gale Group/Thomson)).
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1989

"Alternatives, Writing and The Formulation of a Thesis," Informal Logic vol.ix. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1987

"Comparisons with Grice," The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1987

"Form, Content, and Superstition," Teaching Thinking and Problem-Solving Vol. 9. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1987

"Luckless Desert is Different Desert," Mind. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1987

"Moral Development and the Personal Point of View," Women and Moral Theory E.Kittay and D.Meyers, eds. Rowman & Littlefield.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 1987

"On Resistance to Critical Thinking," Thinking: The Second International Conference D.N.Perkins, J.Lochhead, and J. Bishop, eds. L. Erlbaum Associates.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 1987

"Knowing, Betting and Cohering," Philosophical Topics, Vol.14. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1986

Review: Motivated Irrationality David F. Pears The Journal of Philosophy. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 1986

"A Defense of Ignorance," The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.7. Reprinted in The Selection of Behavior A.C. Catonia and S. Harnad, eds. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1984

"Abstraction is Uncooperative," The Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 14: 165-181. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1984

"A Note on Defeasibility and Scepticism," Philosophia, Vol.12. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1983

"Human Rationality: Essential Conflicts, Multiple Ideals" The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.6.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1983

"Particularity and Impartiality,"Social Research, Vol.50. (with O.Flanagan). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1983

"Skepticism and Universalizability," The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. LXXVII. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1981

"The Rationality of the (Lay) Scientist: Toward
Reconciliation," The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 6.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1981

"Criteria for a Good Inductive Logic," Applications of Inductive Logic L.J.Cohen and M.Hesse,eds. Oxford University Press.
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 1980

"Evaluating Global and Local Theories of Induction," Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings P.Machamer and F. Suppe, eds.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1976

"Stove on Hume's Inductive Scepticism,"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol.53.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1975