Matthew McGrath

Publications

Articles

Epistemology:

"On Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology," with Jeremy Fantl, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75, 3: 558-589 (2007).  Published version:  link

"Memory and Epistemic Conservatism," Synthese 157, 1: 1-24 (2007)  Published version: link

"Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification," co-authored with Jeremy Fantl, The Philosophical Review, 111, 1: 67-94 (2002).

 

Metaphysics:

"Conciliatory Metaontology and the Vindication of Common Sense," forthcoming in Noûs.

"Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence," forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics.
Recipient of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholar Prize for 2005.

"No Objects, No Problem?" in The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 83, 4: 457 - 486 (2005).

"What the Deflationist May Say About Truthmaking," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 66, 3: 666-688 (2003).

"Deflationism and the Normativity of Truth," Philosophical Studies, 112, 1: 47-67, 2003.

"Rea on Universalism," Analysis 61: 69-76 (2001).

"The Concrete Modal Realist Challenge to Platonism," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 74: 587-610 (1998).

"Proportionality and Mental Causation: A Fit?" Philosophical Perspectives, 12, Language, Mind, and Ontology: 167-176 (1998).

"Van Inwagen on Universalism," Analysis, 58: 116-21, 1998.

"Quasi-Realism and the Humean Defense of Normative Non-Factualism," Philosophical Studies, 90: 113-27 (1998).

"Reply to Kovach," Mind 106: 581-6 (1997).

"Weak Deflationism," Mind 106: 69-98 (1997).

Books

Between Deflationism and the Correspondence Theory. Garland Dissertations in Philosophy, 2000.

Knowledge in an Uncertain World, with Jeremy Fantl, under contract with Oxford University Press.

Epistemology: An Anthology, (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies), 2nd edition, Jeremy Fantl, Jaegwon Kim, Matthew McGrath, and Ernest Sosa, eds. (Malden, MA, Blackwell: 2008).


Invited Contributions, Book Reviews

"Critical Study of John Hawthorne, Knowledge and Lotteries and Jason Stanley, Knowledge and Practical Interests" forthcoming in Noûs.

"Propositions" for The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

"Lynch on the Value of Truth,"  Philosophical Books.

"Review of John Hawthorne’s Knowledge and Lotteries," The Notre Dame On-Line Philosophical Reviews, August 2004.

"Review of Andrew Newman’s The Correspondence Theory of Truth," Mind 2004.

"Review of Max Kölbel’s Truth Without Objectivity," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2007.

"Scott Soames: Understanding Truth," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65, 2: 410-7 (2002).

Critical Notice of Mark Balaguer’s Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63, 1: 239-42 (2001).


Work  in Progress

"Truth and Epistemic Justification"