JOSH DIPAOLO
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Research Overview

I write on issues in epistemology, social epistemology, ethics, metaethics, and religion. I have projects in the works related to epistemic trespassing, post-truth explanations, conversion, radicalization and extremism, humility, and self and other licensing. I worry about overconfidence, divisions in belief, and people's resistance to changing their minds. I am especially interested in the ways people's self-conceptions interact with their belief and opinion management. I'm starting to think seriously about epistemic, ethical, and political issues related to climate change. 

Publications
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The Word of a Reluctant Convert
     Synthese ​(forthcoming)
The Fragile Epistemology of Fanaticism
    In Klenk, M. (ed) Higher-Order Evidence and Moral Epistemology. (2020): 217-235. 
Conversion, Causes, and Closed-Mindedness
    Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6(1) (2020): 74-95
Second-Best Epistemology: Fallibility and Normativity
     Philosophical Studies 176(8) (2019): 2043-2066
Evidence and Fallibility
     Episteme ​16(1) (2019): 39-55
Higher-Order Defeat is Object-Independent
     Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99(2) (2018): 248-269

Indoctrination Anxiety and the Etiology of Belief (with Robert Simpson) 
     Synthese 193 (2016): 3079-3098
Probabilistic Promotion Revisited (with Jeff Behrends) 
     Philosophical Studies 173(7) (2016): 1735-1754 

Reason to Promotion Inferences (with Jeff Behrends)
     Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2015)
Finlay and Schroeder on Promoting a Desire (with Jeff Behrends)
     Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2011) 

Public Writing
The Origin of Belief (with Robert Simpson) 
    The Forum: Thinking in Public (2016)
    Reprinted in: The Philosopher's Magazine: Skepticism 78(3) (2017): 90-93.


Work in Progress
I welcome feedback. Please email me for drafts or with comments. 
A paper on epistemic trespassing. 
A paper on moral and epistemic self-licensing. ​​
A paper on "post-truth" explanations.
A paper on radicalization. 
A paper on radicalization and "enthusiasm," as understood by the early moderns. 

A paper on the rationality of prejudice, extremism, and beliefs formed and sustained in echo chambers.
A paper on disagreement with converts. 


Ideas Being Baked
Reasonable person standards in the law
Information cascades, social media, and self-licensing
More on the relation between testimony and conversion
The relation between love, respect, and conversion
The nature of religious, moral, and political "belief" and how this informs questions about conversion 
The idea (found in Ta-Nehisi Coates and Baldwin, among other places) that there is a moral imperative to see reality as it is
Miscarriage and abortion
Transformative experience and autonomy in medicine
​Transformative experience and epistemic injustice





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