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

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 (2008) 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) 126:2
• "Why Pragmatists Can't Be Pluralists," Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (2005) 41:1. With Robert B. Talisse
• "Modest Evidentialism," International Philosophical Quarterly (2006) 46:3
• "Contrastive Self Attribution of Belief," Social Epistemology (2006) 20:1
• "Two Forms of the Straw Man" Argumentation (2005) 20:3. With Robert B. Talisse
• "Prospects for Skeptical Foundationalism," Metaphilosophy (2007) 38:5
• "Evidentialism for Everyone," Think (2007) 15
• "Meta-epistemology and the Varieties of Epistemic Infinitism," Synthese (2008) 163:2
• "Tu Quoque Arguments and the Significance of Hypocrisy," Informal Logic (2008) 28:2
• "Levinasian Otherism, Skepticism, and the Problem of Self-Refutation” Philosophical Forum (Forthcoming) With J. Aaron Simmons.
• "Holding One's Own," Argumentation (Forthcoming 2008)
• "Don't Fear the Regress: Epistemic Infinitism and Cognitive Value." Think (Forthcoming 2009)
• "A Consistency Challenge for Moral and Religious Beliefs." Teaching Philosophy (Forthcoming 2009) With Brian Ribeiro

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

• "The Problem of Worship." Lipscomb University, October, 2008
• "The Ethics and Politics of Belief." Epistemology of Liberal Democracy Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. November, 2008 With Robert B. Talisse

  Popular Essays

• "The Truth about Hypocrisy" (with Robert B. Talisse)
• "What do you do when they call you a tree-hugger?"
• "The Problem of Worship"