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Mikael Janvid

E-mail:
mikael.janvid
 @ philosophy.su.se

 

 

My main area of interest is epistemology. At the moment I am working on an an externalist model of defeaters. I am also preparing a paper that investigates the epistemic properties of understanding.

Between October 2007 and September 2010 I participated in a German Research Project in Frankfurt led by Professor Marcus Willaschek with the title "Defeasability and Discourse Dependence" where I mainly worked on the part of the project that investigated a priori warrant.

In Januari 2008 another research project "Modern Theories of the A Priori - Criticism and Alternatives" funded by the Swedish Scientific Council started of which I am also a member.

2004-6 I pursued a research project financed by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation on "Doubting Skepticism" where I investigated contextualist, externalist and transcendental arguments against skepticism. As previously mentioned, I continue to work on these issues in particular on issues concerning the notion of a challenge and that of a defeater.

I wrote my dissertation on epistemological naturalism "Naturalism and the Status of Epistemology" where I discuss arguments for and against that position.

Besides epistemology I am also interested in the history of theoretical philosophy (mainly from Descartes and onwards) and the philosophy of the humanist sciences - especially assumptions concerning rationality.

Between 2002 and September 2004 I worked as a lecturer in philosophy at Linköpings universitet.

 

Publications

12. “Knowledge versus Understanding. The Cost of Avoiding Gettier”. (forthcoming in Acta Analytica)

11.  Review of Essays on Skepticism by Anthony Brueckner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 (forthcoming in Theoria).

10. "Towards a Default and Challenge Model of A Priori Warrant" (forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical Research).

9. "Empirical Indefeasibility and Nonfactuality: Assessing Field's Evaluative Approach to the A Priori", Croatian Journal of Philosophy X, 2010, 183-197.

8. "The Value of Lesser Goods: The Epistemic Value of Entitlement", Acta Analytica 24, 2009, 263-274.(pdf)

7. "The Experiential Defeasibility and Overdetermination of A Priori Justification", Journal of Philosophical Research 33, 2008, 271-278.(pdf)

6. "Defeaters and Rising Standards of Justification", Acta Analytica 23, 2008, 45-54.(pdf)

5. "Casullo on the Nature and Existence of A Priori Justification" Review Essay of A Priori Justification Albert Casullo Oxford University Press 2003, sats 7, 2006, 136-47.

4. "Contextualism in Doubt", Croatian Journal of Philosophy VI, 2006, 197-217.

3. "Contextualism and the Structure of Skeptical Arguments", dialectica 60, 2006, 63-77.(pdf)

2. "Epistemological Naturalism and the Normativity Objection or from Normativity to Constitutivity", Erkenntnis 60, 2004, 35-49.(pdf)

1. Naturalism and the Status of Epistemology Stockholm University, Department of Philosophy, Preprint Series no. 7, 2001.