dennis whitcomb
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I’m an assistant professor of philosophy at Western
Washington University, a position I took up in September of 2007 after
finishing a PhD with Alvin
Goldman at Rutgers.
My current research takes as a starting point
the idea that there is a special dimension of value, the epistemic
dimension, with respect to which some things are better than others. Given
this idea, it makes sense to ask which things actually are
epistemically better than which other things. I’m working on a series of
papers addressing that question. I
also have interests in ethics, aesthetics, political philosophy, philosophy
of science, philosophy of mind, … come to think of
it, pretty much every branch of the contemporary analytic tradition.
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