Earl Conee
Professor of Philosophy
PhD, Massachusetts
- Office Location
- 528 Lattimore Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4105
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 pm, and by appointment
Research Overview
Research Interests
- Ethics
- Epistemology
- Philosophy of Mind
Courses Offered (subject to change)
- PHIL 101: Introduction to Philosophy
- PHIL 503: Theory of Knowledge
Selected Publications
- "Against Moral Dilemmas," Philosophical Review, 1982
- "Evidentialism," (co-authored with Richard Feldman) Philosophical Studies, 1985
- "Evident, but Rationally Unacceptable," The Australian Journal of Philosophy, 1987
- "The Basic Nature of Epistemic Justification," The Monist, 1988
- "Why Moral Dilemmas Are Impossible," American Philosophical Quarterly, 1989
- "The Possibility of Power Beyond Possibility," Philosophical Perspectives V, 1991
- "Phenomenal Knowledge," The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1994
- "Seeing the Truth," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, December 1998
- "Metaphysics and the Morality of Abortion," Mind, October 1999
- "Heeding Misleading Evidence," Philosophical Studies 2001
- (With Richard Feldman) Evidentialism: Essays in Episemology, OUP, 2004
- "Contextualism Contested," Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Blackwell, 2005
- "Disjunctivism and Anti-Skepticism," Philosophical Issues, 2007
- “Rational Disagreement Defended,” in Disagreement, R. Feldman and T. Warfield eds., Oxford, 2010
- “Replies to Evidentialism’s Critics” (with Richard Feldman), in Evidentialism and Its Discontents, T. Dougherty ed., Oxford, 2011
- “Conceiving Absolute Greatness,” The Puzzle of Existence, T. Goldschmidt ed., Routledge, 2013
- “Moral by Virtue of Virtue,” Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, vol. 4, M. Timmonsed., forthcoming