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What Quasi-Realists Can Say About Knowledge
Draft (subject to change)
Forthcoming in R. Johnson and M. Smith (ed.s) Passions and Projections: Themes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn, Oxford University Press

Naturalism and Norms of Inference
Draft (subject to change)
Forthcoming in 
O. Flanagan and A
. Fairweather
(ed.s)
 Naturalizing Virtue, Cambridge University Press

What Can We Know A Priori?
Final draft
Forthcoming in R. Neta (ed.) Current Controversies in Epistemology, London: Routledge

'Intuition', Intuition, Concepts and the A Priori
Final draft
Forthcoming in A. Booth and D. Rowbottom (ed.s) Intuitions, Oxford University Press

Merely Verbal Disputes
Final draft | Online First version
Forthcoming in Erkenntnis

Naturalistic Challenges to the A Priori
Forthcoming in A. Casullo and J. Thurow (ed.s), The A Priori in Philosophy, Oxford University Press

Explanation and Fundamentality
Final draft
In M. Hoeltje, B. Schnieder and A. Steinberg (ed.s) Varieties of Dependence (Basic Philosophical Concepts Series), 2013, Munich: Philosophia Verlag, pp. 211-42

Justification Magnets
In Philosophical Studies 164 (1), 2013, pp. 93-111

Disposition Impossible
Final draft | Published version
With Daniel Nolan, in Noûs 46 (4), 2012, pp. 732-53

A Priori Knowledge: The Conceptual Approach
Final draft
In A. Cullison (ed.), The Continuum Companion to Epistemology, 2012, London: Continuum Press, pp. 180-98

Reflective Knowledge and Epistemic Circularity
In Philosophical Papers 40, 2011, pp. 305-25

Kripkenstein and the Cleverly Disguised Mules
Final draft | Published version
In Analytic Philosophy 52 (2), 2011, pp. 88-99

Is Metaphysical Dependence Irreflexive?
Final draft
In The Monist 94 (2), 2011, pp. 267-76

Concepts, Experience and Modal Knowledge
Final draft | Published version
In Philosophical Perspectives 24, 2010, pp. 255-79

What Is Ontological Realism?
Final draft | Published version
In Philosophy Compass 5 (10), October 2010, pp. 880-90

Maximizing, Satisficing and Context
Final draft | Published version
With Daniel Nolan, in Noûs 43 (3), September 2010, pp. 451-68

Apriorism About Modality: Response to Scott Sturgeon
Final draft
In B. Hale and A. Hoffmann (ed.s), Modality: Metaphysics, Logic and Epistemology, 2010, Oxford University Press, pp. 310-17

The Mystery of the Disappearing Diamond
Final draft
In J. Salerno (ed.), New Essays on The Knowability Paradox, 2009, Oxford University Press, pp. 302-19

Modal Knowledge, Counterfactual Knowledge and the Role of Experience
Final draft | Published version
In The Philosophical Quarterly 58 (233), October 2008, pp. 693-701

Backwards Explanation
Final draft | Published version
With Daniel Nolan, in Philosophical Studies 140 (1), July 2008, pp. 103-15

The Importance of Being Designated: a Comment on Caret and Cotnoir
Final draft | Published version
In Analysis 68 (3), July 2008, pp. 244-7

A Priori Knowledge: Debates and Developments
Final draft | Published version
In Philosophy Compass 3 (3), May 2008, pp. 436-50

Boghossian and Epistemic Analyticity
Final draft
In The Croatian Journal of Philosophy 8 (22), May 2008, pp. 113-27

Romeo, René and The Reasons Why: What Explanation Is
Final draft | Published version
In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 108 (1), April 2008, pp. 61-84

Liar-Like Paradoxes and Object-Language Features
Final draft
With Daniel Nolan, in American Philosophical Quarterly 45 (1), January 2008, pp. 67-73

Epistemic Norms and Natural Facts
Final draft
In American Philosophical Quarterly 44 (3), July 2007, pp. 259-72

Entitlement and Rationality
Final draft | Published version
In Synthese 157 (1), July 2007, pp. 25-45

Anti-Realism and Epistemic Accessibility
Final draft | Published version
In Philosophical Studies 132 (3), February 2007, pp. 525-51

True, False, Paranormal and Designated: a Reply to Beall
Final draft | Published version
In Analysis 67 (1), January 2007, pp. 80-3

Lewis and Blackburn on Quasi-Realism and Fictionalism
Final draft | Published version
In Analysis 66 (4), October 2006, pp. 315-9

Knowledge and Explanation
Final draft
In Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36 (2), June 2006, pp. 137-64

Knowledge of Arithmetic
Final draft | Published version
In The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (4), December 2005, pp. 727-47

Realism and Independence
Final draft
In American Philosophical Quarterly 42 (3), July 2005, pp. 199-211

Sleeping Beauty: A Wake-Up Call
Final draft | Published version
In Philosophia Mathematica 13 (2), June 2005, pp. 194-201