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  • Jennifer McErlean
    Professor of Philosophy
    Siena Hall 414
    (518) 783-4129
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Joshua Alexander, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy

  Joshua Alexander, Ph.D.
  Siena Hall 412
  518-782-6715
 
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Joshua Alexander joined the philosophy faculty at Siena College as Assistant Professor in Fall 2008.  He received an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1999) and his Ph.D. from Indiana University (2008). He is an epistemologist whose work is at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. Most of his published work is on the nature and epistemic status of philosophical intuitions, the nature of epistemic expertise, and on concepts and conceptual competence. He is also interested in the epistemology of disagreement, the nature of epistemic normativity, the value of knowledge, and a variety of questions in the philosophy of logic, philosophical psychology, and the history of analytic philosophy. He has published articles and reviews, or has articles forthcoming, in Behavioral and Brain SciencesThe Monist, Philosophical PsychologyReview of Philosophy and PsychologyPhilosophy of SciencePhilosophy Compass, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and has just completed work on a book on philosophical intuitions and experimental philosophy that will be published by Polity Press in early 2012.