Hello! I'm Matthew Willis, a philosopher/data analyst. I've been teaching philosophy since 2017 at the University of Cincinnati and I now lecture at The Ohio State University.
My dissertation mainly involves old problems in epistemology (that's the study of knowledge). Specifically, I am working on what's called the epistemic regress problem, which is a challenge to our ability to give sufficient reasons for our beliefs. It seems reasonable that we ought to have some reasons for our beliefs, right? But in order to accept those reasons, shouldn't we have reasons for those reasons? So goes the epistemic regress problem. My work involves clarifying what this problem targets so that any proposed solution to it will be properly framed such that it can avoid otherwise easy objections from the skeptic. EDUCATION
EXPERTISE/SKILLS
Philosophy.
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