Scott Aikin
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- PhD Philosophy Vanderbilt University
- Masters Philosophy Vanderbilt University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Scott F. Aikin is an American philosopher and assistant professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he also holds a joint appointment in Classics. He earned an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Montana in 1999 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University in 2006. His principal areas of research are epistemology, argumentation theory, ancient philosophy, and pragmatism.
Scott Aikin's Published Works
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Published Works
- Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses (2003) (99)
- Two Forms of the Straw Man (2006) (72)
- Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008) (56)
- Developing Group-Deliberative Virtues (2010) (46)
- Epistemology and the Regress Problem (2010) (45)
- A Defense of War and Sport Metaphors in Argument (2011) (40)
- Who is Afraid of Epistemology’s Regress Problem? (2005) (37)
- Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Phenomenology (2007) (26)
- Why Pragmatists Cannot be Pluralists (2010) (26)
- Straw Men, Weak Men, and Hollow Men (2011) (26)
- Deep Disagreement, the Dark Enlightenment, and the Rhetoric of the Red Pill (2018) (24)
- Perelmanian Universal Audience and the Epistemic Aspirations of Argument (2008) (21)
- Meta-epistemology and the varieties of epistemic infinitism (2008) (20)
- Why We Argue (And How We Should) : A Guide to Political Disagreement (2013) (20)
- Magnetic and superconducting properties of RBa2Cu (1987) (17)
- Poe's Law, group polarization, and argumentative failure in religious and political discourse (2013) (16)
- Straw Men, Iron Men, and Argumentative Virtue (2016) (15)
- Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy (2017) (13)
- Deep Disagreement and the Problem of the Criterion (2018) (13)
- Modeling Critical Questions as Additional Premises (2010) (13)
- Stoicism, Feminism and Autonomy (2014) (11)
- Still Searching for a Pragmatist Pluralism (2010) (10)
- The Pragmatism Reader: From Peirce through the Present (2011) (10)
- Pragmatism and Pluralism Revisited (2016) (9)
- Pragmatism, Experience, and the Given (2009) (9)
- Why We Argue (And How We Should) (2018) (9)
- Holding One’s Own (2008) (9)
- The Problem of the Criterion and Hegel's Model for Epistemic Infinitism (2010) (8)
- The Owl of Minerva Problem (2018) (8)
- Poe's Law, Group Polarization, and the Epistemology of Online Religious Discourse (2009) (7)
- Nicholas of Cusa’s De pace fidei and the meta-exclusivism of religious pluralism (2013) (7)
- Tu Quoque Arguments and the Siginificance of Hypocrisy (2008) (7)
- Kitcher on the Ethics of Inquiry (2007) (7)
- Three Objections to the Epistemic Theory of Argument Rebutted (2008) (7)
- THE PROBLEM OF WORSHIP (2010) (6)
- Knowing Better, Cognitive Command, and Epistemic Infinitism (2014) (6)
- Contrastive Self‐Attribution of Belief (2006) (6)
- Replies To Our Critics (2011) (5)
- Prospects for peircian epistemic infinitism (2009) (5)
- Reasonable Atheism: A Moral Case For Respectful Disbelief (2011) (5)
- Tu Quoque Arguments and the Significance of Hypocrisy (2008) (5)
- Bothsiderism (2022) (4)
- John Dewey's Quest for Unity: The Journey of a Promethean Mystic By Richard Gale (2010) (4)
- Argumentative Norms in Republic I (2006) (4)
- All Philosophers Go to Hell: Dante and the Problem of Infernal Punishment (2014) (4)
- Prospects for Moral Epistemic Infinitism (2014) (4)
- Wittgenstein, Dewey, and the Possibility of Religion (2006) (4)
- DON'T FEAR THE REGRESS: COGNITIVE VALUES AND EPISTEMIC INFINITISM (2009) (4)
- THE ETHICS OF INQUIRY AND ENGAGEMENT: THE CASE OF SCIENCE IN PUBLIC (2010) (3)
- Why We Argue: A Sketch of an Epistemic-Democratic Program (2014) (3)
- The Truth about Hypocrisy (2008) (3)
- Dialecticality and Deep Disagreement (2018) (3)
- Prospects for A Levinasian Epistemic Infinitism (2012) (3)
- Pregnant Premise Arguments (2012) (3)
- Argumentative Ethics (2021) (3)
- Straw Man Arguments (2022) (3)
- Oxygen isotope effects in yttrium-barium-copper oxides. (1989) (3)
- Nagel on Public Education and Intelligent Design (2010) (3)
- Argumentative Adversariality, Contrastive Reasons, and the Winners-and-Losers Problem (2020) (3)
- Evolution, Intelligent Design and Public Education: A Comment on Thomas Nagel (2010) (3)
- Responsible Sports Spectatorship and the Problem of Fantasy Leagues (2013) (3)
- Epistemic Abstainers, Epistemic Martyrs, and Epistemic Converts (2010) (3)
- Argumentation and the problem of agreement (2022) (3)
- PROSPECTS FOR SKEPTICAL FOUNDATIONALISM (2007) (3)
- Pragmatism and Metaphilosophy (2017) (2)
- A Self-Defeat Problem for the Rhetorical Theory of Argument (2008) (2)
- Modest, But Not Self-Effacing, Transcendental Arguments: MODEST, BUT NOT SELF-EFFACING (2017) (2)
- Modest (but not Self-Effacing) Transcendental Arguments (2015) (2)
- Evidentialism and James' Argument from Friendship (2008) (2)
- Seneca on Surpassing God (2017) (2)
- St. Anselm's Ontological Argument as Expressive: A Wittgensteinian Reconstruction (2014) (2)
- What Optimistic Responses to Deep Disagreement get Right (and Wrong) (2020) (2)
- Reply to Joshua Anderson (2015) (2)
- The Significance of Al Gore’s Purported Hypocrisy (2009) (2)
- Dialectical Responsibility and Regress Skepticism (2020) (2)
- Clifford’s Pragmatism and the Will to Believe (2017) (2)
- ARGUMENT IN MIXED COMPANY: MOM'S MAXIM VS. MILL'S PRINCIPLE (2010) (2)
- Does divine hiding undermine Positive Evidential Atheism? (2015) (2)
- An Atheistic Argument from Ugliness (2015) (2)
- Xenophanes the High Rationalist: The Case of F1:17-8 (2014) (2)
- Levinasian otherism, skepticism, and the problem of self-refutation (2009) (2)
- A (Modest) Defense of Fallacy Theory (2016) (2)
- 'KNOWLEDGE IS TRUE BELIEF' REBUTTED (2010) (2)
- Why We Argue : A Guide to Political Disagreement (2013) (2)
- John Dewey's Quest for Unity (review) (2012) (2)
- Three Challenges To Jamesian Ethics (2011) (2)
- The Dogma of Environmental Revelation (2008) (1)
- A Justification of Faith? (2013) (1)
- Why We Argue (2013) (1)
- Pragmatist Anti-Skepticism: at What Price? (2018) (1)
- So What If Horses Would Draw Horse Gods? (2016) (1)
- You Would Sing Another Tune: Subjunctive Tu Quoque Arguments (2012) (1)
- Disagreement, polarization, and the flight of Minerva’s Owl. A reply to Vaidya (2021) (1)
- On Epistemic Abstemiousness: A Reply to Bundy (2011) (1)
- Pragmatism, Common Sense, and Metaphilosophy: A Skeptical Rejoinder (2018) (1)
- Nicholas of Cusa’s De pace fidei and the meta-exclusivism of religious pluralism (2012) (1)
- The rhetorical theory of argument is self-defeating (2011) (1)
- The regress problem: Metatheory, development, and criticism (2014) (1)
- Arguments by Analogy (2018) (1)
- Greek Philosophy (2012) (1)
- Stoicism’s Integration Problem and Epictetus’ Metaphors (2013) (1)
- Don’t Feed the Trolls: Straw Men and Iron Men (2015) (1)
- What did Epicurus Learn from Plato? (2017) (1)
- Methodological and Valuational Priority in Epictetus’ Enchiridion 52 (2020) (1)
- ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AND THE EXPANDING PROBLEM OF EVIL (2013) (1)
- Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism (2015) (1)
- Deep Disagreements (2018) (1)
- On Epistemic Abstemiousness and Diachronic Norms: A Reply to Bundy (2012) (0)
- Introduction: Epistemology’s Ancient Origins and New Developments (2019) (0)
- Comic Phthonos and Protreptic Premises: Comments on Rebecca Bensen Cain (2017) (0)
- The Ethics of Inquiry (2017) (0)
- Methodological and Metaphilosophical Lessons in Plato’s Ion (2017) (0)
- Argumentative Responsibility and Argument Repair (2018) (0)
- Introduction (2022) (0)
- Does Metaphilosophically Pragmatist Anti-Skepticism Work? (2020) (0)
- Three essays in conversational ethics (1997) (0)
- On willing to believe (2021) (0)
- What Is Epistemology?, by Stephen Hetherington (2020) (0)
- Language, Spin, and Framing (2018) (0)
- On Halting Meta-argument with Para-Argument (2023) (0)
- Skeptical Theism: New Essays (2017) (0)
- Commentary on: Robert Pinto's "Truth and the virtue of arguments" (2013) (0)
- 00 PM A ( Modest ) Defense of Fallacy Theory (2018) (0)
- The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (2004) (0)
- Don't Fear the Regress: Epistemic Infinitism and Cognitive Value (2007) (0)
- Why the Dialectical Tier is an Epistemic Animal (2018) (0)
- Straw Man (2018) (0)
- The Simple Truth Thesis (2018) (0)
- James’s Moral Philosophy (2017) (0)
- Bar Room Knowledge and Epistemic Pragmatism: Comments on Jamie Phillips (2007) (0)
- On a Certain Blindness in Pragmatist Political Philosophy (2017) (0)
- Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing, by Pritchard, Duncan (2017) (0)
- Foundationalism, Infi nitism, and the Given (2010) (0)
- Tu quoque arguments, subjunctive inconsistency, and questions of relevance (2011) (0)
- The Surprising Truth about Hypocrisy (2018) (0)
- Can Pragmatists Be Pluralists (2017) (0)
- Rockmore on analytic pragmatism (2008) (0)
- On the Limits of the Term "Pragmatism" (2019) (0)
- Free Speech (2018) (0)
- The Regress Argument for Skepticism (2011) (0)
- Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches, Third Edition, edited by Paul Moser and Arnold vander Nat (2004) (0)
- Introduction: Skeptical Problems in Political Epistemology (2018) (0)
- Why Argument Matters (2018) (0)
- Politics, for God’s sake (2011) (0)
- Ciceronian Academic Skepticism, Augustinian Anti-Skepticism, and the Argument from Second Place (2017) (0)
- What is the Significance of Al Gore's Purported Hypocrisy? (2008) (0)
- Pragmatist Metaphilosophy and Skepticism (2017) (0)
- On Diogenes and Olympic Victors in advance (2022) (0)
- Skeptical Problems in Political Epistemology (2018) (0)
- Mention Problems for Expressivism: Comments on D.S. Nelson’s “Defending an Expressivist Account of Reasons” (2016) (0)
- A Consistency Challenge for Moral and Religious Beliefs (2009) (0)
- Free Speech Fallacies as Meta-Argumentative Errors (2023) (0)
- Pragmatism and “Existential” Pluralism: A Reply to Hackett (2018) (0)
- Reply to my Commentator - Aikin (2009) (0)
- Skeptical Theism and the Creep Problem (2019) (0)
- Invariantism, Skepticism, and Two Senses of Pragmatism: A Comment on Eric Thompson (2010) (0)
- Peirce’s Mixed Theory of Epistemic Justification (2017) (0)
- Public Argument in a Democratic Society (2017) (0)
- [Symposium] Anthony Robert Booth (2016) Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief. (2018) (0)
- Meta-Epistemic Varieties of Epistemic Infi nitism (2010) (0)
- In The Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars (review) (2008) (0)
- Commentary On Enthymemes and Fallacy Gaps: Commentary on Paglieri (2016) (0)
- John Dewey's Quest for Unity: The Journey of a Promethean Mystic (review) (2011) (0)
- Matters of conscience (2013) (0)
- Truth and Brandomian Metaphilosophy (2015) (0)
- Tone of Voice (2018) (0)
- Skeptical Responses to Stoics and Epicureans on the Criterion (2020) (0)
- Evidentialism for everyone (2007) (0)
- Why Do We Argue? (2018) (0)
- The Illusion of Doubt, by Genia Schönbaumsfeld (2017) (0)
- Commentary on Feteris (2009) (0)
- Argumentation Between the Ads (2018) (0)
- Skeptical Theism: New Essays, edited by Trent Dougherty and Justin McBrayer (2017) (0)
- Democratic Deliberation, Public Reason, and Environmental Politics (2006) (0)
- Civility in Argument (2018) (0)
- Pushovers (2018) (0)
- Commentary on Democratic “Deliberation, Public Reason, and Environmental Politics” (2006) (0)
- Introduction to The Pragmatism Reader (2010) (0)
- Augustine and Academic Skepticism: A Philosophical Study, written by Blake Dutton (2019) (0)
- What Is Living and What Is Dead in Deweyan Political Theory (2017) (0)
- Fixing Belief as Epistemic Conduct (2017) (0)
- The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, edited by Paul Moser (2004) (0)
- Skeptical Theism, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Commands (2013) (0)
- John Dewey's Quest for Unity By Richard Gale (2012) (0)
- Travels of Rolando; or, a tour round the world (0)
- STUDY OF INTERFACES IN XDTm AI/TiCP METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES (2007) (0)
- On the Various Species of Cant (0)
- Discussion Note : Pregnant Premise Arguments 359 (2012) (0)
- Armed for the War on Christmas (2010) (0)
- The Solomon Islands: treasure from the sea (2011) (0)
- You Would Sing Another Tune (2012) (0)
- The Routledge Companion to Pragmatism (2022) (0)
- Epictetus’s Encheiridion (2023) (0)
- Pragmatism and Social Hope: Deepening Democracy in Global Contexts (review) (2011) (0)
- Beyond Hellenistic Epistemology: Arcesilaus and the Destruction of Stoic Metaphysics. By Charles E. Snyder (2022) (0)
- IntroductIon: Plenary on Black Feminist Thought (2021) (0)
- All Philosophers Go to Hell: Dante and the Problem of Infernal Punishment (2013) (0)
- Expressivism, Moral Judgment, and Disagreement: A Jamesian Program (2019) (0)
- Straw Men, Iron Men, and Argumentative Virtue (2015) (0)
- This draft of the review is the penultimate version that was accepted for publication in Teaching Philosophy. Those wishing to cite the review must consult the published version, which is available through the Philosophy Documentation Center at this link: (2014) (0)
- The Stoic Sage Does not Err: An Error? (2022) (0)
- So What If Horses Would Draw Horse Gods? (2015) (0)
- TAKING GOD SERIOUSLY , BUT NOT TOO SERIOUSLY : THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY AND WILLIAM JAMES ’ S ‘ THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND THE MORAL LIFE ’ 1 (2014) (0)
- Argumentation and the problem of agreement (2022) (0)
- Bothsiderism (2022) (0)
- Fallacies of Meta-argumentation (2022) (0)
- Ernest Sosa and virtuously begging the question (2011) (0)
- Deep Disagreement and the Problem of the Criterion (2018) (0)
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