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Professor
Ph.D., 1976, Harvard University
wtalbott@u.washington.edu
Condon 632
(206) 543-5095
William J. Talbott is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. He received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Princeton and his doctorate from Harvard. He teaches and has published articles in epistemology, and moral and political philosophy, including the philosophy of human rights, and rational choice theory. He is the author of Which Rights Should Be Universal? (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is currently working on a second volume on human rights, Human Rights and Human Well-Being to be published by Oxford University Press. He also continues to work on a book in epistemology to be titled, Learning From Experience.
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- The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism: A Mechanist Account of Empirical Justification (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990).
- Which Human Rights Should Be Universal? (Oxford University Press, 2005)
- "Standard and Non-Standard Newcomb Problems", Synthese, Vol. 70 (1987): pp. 415-458.
- "Cost Spreading and Benefit Spreading in Tort Law", Research in Law and Economics, Vol. 11 (1988): pp. 25-51.
- "Two Principles of Bayesian Epistemology", Philosophical Studies, Vol. 62 (1991): pp. 135-150.
- "Intentional Self-Deception in a Single, Coherent Self", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 55 (1995): pp. 27-74.
- Alvin I. Goldman, co-author, "Games Lawyers Play: Legal Discovery and Social Epistemology", Legal Theory, Vol. 4 (1998): pp. 93-163.
- "Why We Need A Moral Equilibrium Theory", Peter A. Danielson, ed., Modeling Rationality, Morality, and Evolution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998): pp. 302-339.
- "The Illusion of Defeat", forthcoming in a volume of essays on the work of Alvin Plantinga.
- Review of The Nature of Rationality, by Robert Nozick, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 104 (April 1995): pp. 324-329.
- Review of Rules for Reasoning, Richard E. Nisbett, ed., Philosophy (AND) Psychology, Vol. 8 (December 1995): pp. 390-396.
- Commentary on "Real Self-Deception", by A.R. Mele, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 20 (1997): p. 127.
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