MatthiasSteup

  • Professor

overview

Matthias Steup (Ph.D. Brown, 1985) joined the Philosophy Department in July 2016. Previously, he was Department Head at Purdue University (2008-2016). He also taught at Grinnell College, the University of Wyoming, and St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. He works primarily in epistemology, particular on skepticism, perceptual justification, and the question of whether we have control over our beliefs. For more information see Professor Steup's CV.

selected papers

  • 鈥淒efeaters, Higher-Order Evidence, and Epistemic Dilemmas.鈥 In Epistemic Dilemmas. New Arguments, New Angles. Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, and Matthias Steup (eds). New York: Routledge, 2022: 86-108.
  • 鈥淓pistemic Duty, Justified Belief, and Voluntary Control.鈥 In Kevin McCain and Scott Stapleford (eds), Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles, Routledge 2021: 7-28.
  • 鈥淓asy Knowledge, Circularity, and the Puzzle of Reliability Knowledge,鈥 Episteme 16 (2019): 453-73.
  • 鈥淏enign Infinity.鈥 In Brandon Fitelson, Rodrigo Borges, and Cherie Braden (eds.), Themes from Klein. Synthese Library Vol. 404, Springer 2019: 235-57.
  • 鈥淚s Evidential Fit Grounded in Explanatory Relations?鈥 In Kevin McCain (ed.), Believing in Accordance with the Evidence听 - New Essays on Evidentialism, Synthese Library Vol. 398, Springer 2018: 359-373.
  • "Destructive Defeat and Justificational Force: The Dialectic of Dogmatism, Conservatism, and Meta-Evidentialism," Synthese 197 (2018): 2907-2933.
  • 鈥淏elieving Intentionally,鈥 Synthese 194 (2017): 2673-2694.

books

A Companion to Epistemology edited by Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, and Matthias Steup

Contemporary Debates in Epistemology edited by Blake Roeber, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, and John Turri

An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology by Matthias Steup

An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology听

Knowledge, Truth, and Duty edited by Matthias Steup

Epistemic Dilemmas New Arguments, New Angles edited by Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford, and Matthias Steup