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Yuval Avnur,

Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy
Phone: 73047
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For full list of publications and current projects, see:

Academic History

  • B.A. Philosophy and Music Composition, UC Santa Barbara
  • Ph.D. Philosophy, NYU

Academic Focus

Epistemology

Books

Cambridge University Press, Elements Series (2023).

Selected Research and Publications

  • Avoiding the Unexpected Circuit: A Humean Improvement on 鈥楥artesian鈥� Skepticism. In Hume and Contemporary Epistemology, Scott Stapleford & Verena Wagner (eds). Routledge (forthcoming).
  • The Pascalian Heart in the Online Echo Chamber. In Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Alex Worsnip (editor) (forthcoming).
  • Analytic Philosophy (forthcoming) (co-authored with Chigozie Obiegbu).
  • Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming).
  • In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Media Ethics, Carl Fox and Joe Saunders, Editors. Routledge (2024).
  • . Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2023).
  • in New Perspectives on Epistemic Closure (2023), Duncan Pritchard & Matthew Jope (eds). Routledge.
  • 鈥淲hat is Wrong with the Online Echo Chamber: a motivated reasoning account,鈥� Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 37, Issue 4, August 2020 Pages 578-593
  • Synthese 198 (5):4897-4916, 2019.
  • Inquiry 64 (8):818-829, 2021.
  • in Agnosticism: Explorations in Philosophy and Religious Thought, (2020). Gavin Hyman & Francis Fallon, Editors. Oxford University Press.
  • The Meaning and Power of Negativity (2017/2021). Ingolf Dalferth, Editor. Mohr Siebeck: T眉bingen.
  • International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 9 ( 2019) 183-205.
  • "On What Does Rationality Hinge?" International Journal for the Study of Skepticism., 7 (2017) 246-257.
  • Review of "Science and Religion in Wittgenstein's Fly-Bottle," by Tim Labron. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  • "How Irrelevant Influences Bias Belief." Philosophical Perspectives, Special Issue: Epistemology, Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 7鈥�39, December 2015 (co-authored with Dion Scott-Kakures)
  • "On Losing Your Self in Your Afterlife." Self or No-Self? The Debate about Selflessness and the Sense of Self (forthcoming), Ingolf Dalferth, Editor. Mohr Siebeck: T眉bingen.
  • "Excuses for Hume鈥檚 Skepticism." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 92, Issue 2, pages 264鈥�306, March 2016.
  • "On an Irrelevant Regress." Theoria, Volume 82, Issue 1, pages 81鈥�88, February 2016.
  • "Closure Reconsidered." Philosophers' Imprint, Volume 12, Number 9, 2012.
  • "Mere Faith and Entitlement," Synthese: Special Issue on Skepticism and Justification, Volume 189, Issue 2 (2012), Page 297-315.
  • "No Closure on Skepticism." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 92, Issue 4 (2011), pp 439-447. (with Christopher Buford and Anthony Brueckner)
  • "Hawthorne on the Deeply Contingent A Priori," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
  • "An Old Problem for the New Rationalism." Synthese, Volume 183, Issue 2 (2011), pp 175-185.
  • "In Defense of Secular Belief." Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Vol. IV (2011), Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Editor. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Awards and Honors

  • Johnson Faculty Achievement Award For Excellence in Teaching, 2010-2011.
  • Johnson Faculty Achievement Award For Excellence in Scholarship, 2009-2010 and 2014-2015.
  • Henry M. MacCracken Fellowship, NYU, 2001-2006