RAM NETA Assistant Professor

Ram Neta specializes in epistemology and is currently at work on a book on perception and knowledge. Sample publications include:  "S knows that P," Noûs (2002); "Contextualism and the Problem of the External World," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2003); "Skepticism, Contextualism, and Semantic Self-Knowledge," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2003); "Perceptual Evidence and the New Dogmatism," Philosophical Studies (2004); "Luminosity and the Safety of Knowledge," (co-authored with Guy Rohrbaugh), Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2004); "Skepticism, Abductivism, and the Explanatory Gap," Philosophical issues (2004); The Normative Significance of Brute Facts," Legal Theory (2004); "A Contextualist Solution to the Problem of Easy Knowledge" Grazer Philosophische Studien (2005); Epistemology Factualized: New Contractarian Foundations for Epistemology," Synthese (2006); "Safety and Epistemic Luck," (co-authored with Avram Hiller), Synthese (forthcoming); "Contextualism and a Puzzle About Seeing," Philosophical Studies (forcoming); "How to Naturalize Epistemology" New Waves in Epistemology, ed. by Pritchard and Hendricks; "Undermining the Case for Contrastivism," Social Epistemology (forthcoming); "In Defense of Disjunctivism," Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, and knowledge, ed. by MacPherson and Haddock (forthcoming); "McDowell and the New Evil Genius," (co-authored with Duncan Pritchard), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming); "Fixing the Transmission: the New Mooreans" Themes from G.E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, ed. by Nuccetelli and Seay (forthcoming); "Defeating the Dogma of Defeasibility" Williamson on Knowledge, ed. by Greenough and Pritchard (forthcoming); "Anti-Intellectualism and the Knowledge-Action Principle," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming); "The Nature and Reach of Privileged Access," Self-Knowledge, ed. by Hatzimoysis (forthcoming); "Propositional Justification, Evidence, and the Cost of Error," Philosophical Issues (forthcoming); "In Defense of Epistemic Relativism," Episteme (forthcoming); "What Evidence Do You Have?", British Journal for Philosophy of Science (forthcoming) "Empiricism about Experience", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming); "How Cheap Can You Get", Philosophical Issues (forthcoming)"[Complete CV]

phone: (919) 962-3316
email: neta@email.unc.edu