Scott Aikin is a visiting scholar associated with the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Western Kentucky University

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Email: scott.f.aikin@vanderbilt.edu or scott.aikin@wku.edu
Phone: (615) 322-2637

Areas of Interest

Representative Publications

• Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Continuum Press (forthcoming) with Robert B. Talisse
• Edited book: The Pragmatic Turn. Princeton University Press (forthcoming) with Robert B. Talisse

• "Who's Afraid of Epistemology's Regress Problem?" Philosophical Studies (2005)
• "Why Pragmatists Can't Be Pluralists," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (2005) with Robert B. Talisse
• "Modest Evidentialism," International Philosophical Quarterly (2006)
• "Contrastive Self Attribution of Belief," Social Epistemology (2006)
• "Argumentative Norms in Republic I," Philosophy in the Contemporary World (2006) with Mark Anderson
• "Pragmatism, Naturalism, and Phenomenology" Human Studies (2006)
• "Two Forms of the Straw Man" Argumentation (2005) with Robert B. Talisse
• "Wittgenstein, Dewey, and the Possibility of Religion" Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2006) with Michael Hodges
• "Deliberative Democracy, Public Reason, and Environmental Politics" Environmental Philosophy (2006)
• "Prospects for Skeptical Foundationalism," Metaphilosophy (2007)
• "Kitcher on the Ethics of Inquiry," The Journal of Social Philosophy (2007)
• "Evidentialism for Everyone," Think (2007)
• "Rockmore on Analytic Pragmatism," Metaphilosophy (forthcoming 2008) With Robert B. Talisse
• "Evidentialism and James' Argument from Friendship," Southwest Philosophy Review (forthcoming 2008)
• “Tu Quoque Arguments and the Significance of Hypocrisy.” Informal Logic (Forthcoming 2008)
• "Meta-epistemology and the Varieties of Epistemic Infinitism," Synthese (forthcoming 2008)

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

• "Don't Fear the Regress: Cognitive Value and Epistemic Infinitism," at the Univeristy of Tennessee, Chattanooga. (10/10/2007) See the flier! or Listen to the podcast! (with introduction by Professor Brian Ribeiro of UTC)
• "Tu Quoque Arguments and the Significance of Hypocrisy," at the Tennesse Philosophical Association, Nashville TN (10/27/2007)
• "Evidentialism and James' Argument from Friendship" at the William James Society Meeting at the 2007 Central APA, Chicago, IL, and at the Soutwest Philosophical Society, San Antonio, TX (11/9-10/2007) Listen to the podcast! and Read along with the Handout
• "Holding One's Own," at Hendrix college. Conway, AR. (11/16/2007)
• "Skepticism, Levinasian Otherism, and the Problem of Self-Refutation." with J. Aaron Simmons. MidSouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis. (2/23/08).

Working Papers and Popular Essays

• Frege's Regress and the Peircean Theory of Truth
• What do you do when they call you a tree-hugger?