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Guy Axtell

Professor

Philosophy & Religion, Dept of

Address:

CHBS Building 4205
PO Box 5937

Ph.D. University of Hawai'i

Bio: Dr. Guy Axtell is Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Fellow of the 澳门老奇人论坛 Honors Academy. He received the Outstanding Scholar Award for 2012-2013 in the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences. His research addresses how we can apply epistemology, the theory of knowledge, to real-life issues of social concern, such as belief polarization, and responsibility in inquiry. When not teaching or writing, 鈥淒r. Ax鈥� often seeks his ataraxia* through biking, tennis, skiing, windsurfing, and curiously speaking about himself in the third person.

*Ataraxia: Ancient Greek term for psychic balance and 鈥渇reedom from disquiet.鈥�

Teaching interests: Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, 鈥淪TS鈥� or science, technology and society studies, applied epistemology, and philosophy of religion. 

Research interests: Sampling of recent and forthcoming research included below.

Papers and abstracts are available at  and .

Awards

  • 2022 NEH Fellow, Summer Institute (4 weeks) 2022: David Hume in the 21st Century: Perpetuating the Enlightenment. 
  • 2022 Hayek Travel Award, from George Mason University鈥檚 Institute of Humane Studies.

Books

  • . Lexington Books, Jan. 2019. 
  • . Co-edited with Amiel Bernal (VT ASPECT Ph.D./PHRE Adjunct). Rowman & Littlefield, June 2020. 
  • . In Key Concepts in Philosophy from Polity Press (Cambridge, UK, Dec. 2015), 

Papers and Selected Publications

  • 2022a.  In Robert Vinten (ed.), Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion. Bloomsbury, forthcoming. 
  • 2022b.  In Wittgenstein and the Epistemology of Religious Belief, Duncan Pritchard and Nuno Carlos Venturina (eds.). Oxford University Press.
  • 2022c.  forthcoming in Virtuous and Vicious Partiality [Proceedings of conference, Christopher Newport U, Feb. 2022]
  • 2022d. 鈥淓pistemic Virtue, Duty, and Value鈥� In Rebus Introduction to Epistemology []
  • 2022e. 鈥�,鈥� Synthese 200 (302).
  • 2023a. 鈥淒avid Hume and the Evolution of Social Co-operation鈥� (conference paper, under review)
  • 鈥溾�� In The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision. James Collier (ed.) Rowman & Littlefield (2015), 97-106.  
  • 鈥�.鈥� Draft for 11th East-West Philosopher鈥檚 Conference, Honolulu, U. of Hawaii,  East-West Center, 2016.
  • 鈥渘.鈥� In William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life: The Cries of the Wounded.  Jacob Goodson (ed.), Lexington Books (2016).
  • 鈥溾�� In William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life: The Cries of the Wounded. Jacob Goodson (ed.), Lexington Books (2016).
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