Kevin M. Meeker

Kevin M. Meeker

Professor and Interim Chair, Philosophy Department
Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

Research Interests

  • Epistemology
  • Early Modern Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Metaphysics
  • Ethics
  • Logic
  • Philosophy of Science

Bio

After years of toiling away on my book on David Hume, I am returning to some previous research interests in epistemology and philosophy of religion and also branching out into philosophy of logic and environmental ethics. Typically my course schedule includes standard classes such as Introduction to Ethics and Introduction to Philosophy. But I have also been developing some new courses such as Skepticism in Film and Philosophy, God and Evil in Logic and Literature, and Native American Thought.


Publications

BOOKS

  • Hume's Radical Scepticism and the Fate of Naturalized Epistemology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

  • The Philosophical Challenge of Religious Diversity, edited with Philip L. Quinn (Oxford University Press, 2000)

REFEREED PAPERS

  • "Ethics and Epistemology in Hume", The European Legacy 18, 4 (2013): 457-466.

  • "Quine on Hume and the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction", Philosophia 39,2 (2011): 369-373.

  • "Skeptics without Borders", (co-authored with Ted Poston) American Philosophical Quarterly (July 2010) 47, 3:223-238.

  • "Hume on Certainty, Knowledge, and Probability: Anticipating the Disintegration of the Analytic/Synthetic Divide?" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (June 2007): 226-242

  • "Pluralism, Exclusivism, and the Theoretical Virtues", Religious Studies 42 (June 2006): 193-206 [with a reply from John Hick]

  • "Was Hume a Proper Functionalist?", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72, 1 (January 2006): 120-136

  • "Justification and the Social Nature of Knowledge", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69, 1 (July 2004): 156-172

  • "Truth, Justification, and the Epistemic Way", Journal of Philosophical Research 28 (2003): 287-309

  • "Is Hume's Epistemology Internalist or Externalist?", Dialogue 40, 1 (January 2001): 125-146

  • "Hume's Iterative Probability Argument: A Pernicious Reductio", Journal of the History of Philosophy 38, 2 (April 2000): 221-238

  • "Knowledge from Gossip?", Philosophia 27, 3-4 (November 1999): 537-539

  • "Hume: Radical Sceptic or Naturalized Epistemologist?", Hume Studies 24, 1 (April 1998): 31-52

  • "Chisholming Away at Plantinga's Critique of Epistemic Deontology", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76, 1 (March 1998): 90-96

  • "Should We Abandon Epistemic Justification?", Southwest Philosophy Review 13, 1 (January 1997): 129-136

  • "William Alston's Epistemology of Religious Experience: A 'Reformed' Reformed Epistemology?", International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 35, 2 (April 1994): 89-110

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Courses

  • Classical Philosophy (team taught on-line)
  • Introduction to Ethics
  • Introduction to Philosophy (regular and online)
  • Epistemology/Theory of Knowledge
  • Ethical Implications of Scientific Progress
  • God and Evil in Logic and Literature
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Renaissance and Enlightenment
  • Skepticism in Film and Philosophy
  • World Religions (online)