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NANCY LAWRENCE
Graduate Student

Nancy's general philosophical interests have never once wavered from metaphysics and epistemology. Her interests have, however, moved away from her very first philosophical concerns, which involved philosophy of religion, and have progressed more-or-less steadily along a direct path to the truth, which obviously ends abruptly, yet squarely, in the domain of the epistemology of logic. In addition to areas of specialization in the philosophy and epistemology of logic and belief-revision, Nancy's areas of competence include philosophy of language, and especially philosophy of mathematics. Nancy is also very interested in feminism and philosophy of race, and, occasionally, just for fun, still likes to think about a few nagging problems in philosophy of religion (insofar as they relate to epistemology), like the problem of religious pluralism and the problem of divine hiddenness. Her M.A. thesis is entitled "Apriority is a Good Thing: Field on the Evaluative Aspect of Apriority." The tentative title of her dissertation is "A Priori Knowledge and the Revisability of Logic." Currently, Nancy is very worried about what, if anything, we can know a priori. Right now she thinks there are at least two things, thank goodness.

email: nancyl@email.unc.edu