Professor Richard G Pettigrew

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• 2021

  Accuracy-first epistemology without Additivity

  Pettigrew, R. G., 1 Feb 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Philosophy of Science.

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  • Additivity 100%
  • Epistemology 87%
  • Bayesian Epistemology 37%
  • Credence 27%
  • Tenets 21%

• Bayesian Updating When What You Learn Might Be False (Forthcoming in Erkenntnis)

  Pettigrew, R., 20 Feb 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Erkenntnis. 16 p.

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  • Bayesian Updating 100%
  • False 62%
  • Conditionalization 46%
  • Updating 11%
  • Fold 10%
  27 Downloads (Pure)

• Radical epistemology, structural explanations, and epistemic weaponry

  Pettigrew, R. G., 25 May 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophical Studies.

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• 2020

  A Note on Deterministic Updating and van Fraassen's symmetry argument for Conditionalization

  Pettigrew, R., 18 Apr 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophical Studies. 9 p.

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  • Conditionalization 100%
  • Symmetry 73%
  • Credence 63%
  • Epistemic Argument 16%
  • Philos Stud 7%
  33 Downloads (Pure)

• Logical ignorance and logical learning

  Pettigrew, R. G., 5 Jun 2020, In: Synthese. 30 p.

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  • Ignorance 100%
  • Logical Omniscience 88%
  • epistemology 82%
  • rationality 82%
  • Logic 49%
  30 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Internalism, Externalism, and the KK Principle

  Bird, A. & Pettigrew, R., 16 Nov 2019, In: Erkenntnis. 2019, 20 p.

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  • Internalism 100%
  • Externalism 98%
  • Denial 50%
  • Relationships 48%
  • Epistemological 30%
  49 Downloads (Pure)

• On the Expected Utility Objection to the Dutch Book Argument for Probabilism

  Pettigrew, R., 3 May 2019, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nous. 16 p.

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  • Probabilism 100%
  • Expected Utility 68%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  5 Downloads (Pure)

• Veritism, Epistemic Risk, and the Swamping Problem

  Pettigrew, R., 26 Mar 2019, In: Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 14 p.

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  • Swamping Problem 100%
  • Epistemic Risk 94%
  • Epistemic Values 73%
  • Justified Belief 50%
  • Decision Theory 24%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  52 Downloads (Pure)

• What is Conditionalization, and why should we do it?

  Pettigrew, R., 27 Nov 2019, In: Philosophical Studies. p. 1-37 37 p.

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  • Conditionalization 100%
  • Bayesian Epistemology 27%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  66 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  An Accuracy‐Dominance Argument for Conditionalization

  Pettigrew, R. & Briggs, R. A., 21 Jun 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Noûs. 54, 1, p. 162-181 20 p.

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  • Conditionalization 100%
  • Probabilism 24%
  • Calculi 16%
  • Theorists 12%
  16 Citations (Scopus)

  69 Downloads (Pure)

• Précis of Accuracy and the Laws of Credence

  Pettigrew, R., 10 May 2018, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 96, 3, p. 749-754 6 p.

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• The Population Ethics of Belief: In Search of an Epistemic Theory X

  Pettigrew, R., 1 Jun 2018, In: Noûs. 52, 2, p. 336-372 37 p.

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  • Population Ethics 100%
  • Ethics of Belief 93%
  • Credence 73%
  • Ethicists 13%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  349 Downloads (Pure)

• The Principal Principle does not imply the Principle of Indifference

  Pettigrew, R., 4 Jul 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 15 p., axx060.

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  • Principal Principle 100%
  • Principle of Indifference 98%
  • Assent 25%
  • Intuition 20%
  • Defeat 18%
  39 Downloads (Pure)

• What is Justified Credence?

  Pettigrew, R., 4 Dec 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Episteme. 15 p.

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  • Reliabilism 100%
  • Credence 87%
  • Process Reliabilism 50%
  • Justification 28%
  • Mountains 17%
  262 Downloads (Pure)

• What we talk about when we talk about numbers

  Pettigrew, R., Dec 2018, In: Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 169, 12, p. 1437-1456 20 p.

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  • Structuralism 100%
  • Melia 50%
  • Mathematical Structuralism 49%
  • Nominalist 39%
  • New Species 38%
  74 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Aggregating incoherent agents who disagree

  Pettigrew, R., 16 Nov 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Synthese. 40 p.

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  • Degree of Belief 100%
  • Group 22%
  291 Downloads (Pure)

• Epistemic utility and the normativity of logic

  Pettigrew, R., 1 Dec 2017, In: Logos and Episteme. 8, 4, p. 455-492 43 p.

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  • Normativity 100%
  • Rationality 37%
  • Logical Consequence 37%
  • Logic 34%
  • Decision Theory 19%
  197 Downloads (Pure)

• Précis and Replies to Contributors for Book Symposium on Accuracy and the Laws of Credence

  Pettigrew, R. G., Mar 2017, In: Episteme. 14, 1, p. 1-30 30 p.

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  • Book Symposium 100%
  • Credence 69%
  • Principle of Indifference 15%
  • Ontology 7%
  • Characterization 7%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  398 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Accuracy, Risk, and the Principle of Indifference

  Pettigrew, R. G., 1 Jan 2016, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 92, 1, p. 35-59 25 p.

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  35 Citations (Scopus)

  596 Downloads (Pure)

• Illness as transformative experience

  Carel, H., Kidd, I. J. & Pettigrew, R., 17 Sep 2016, In: Lancet. 388, 10050, p. 1152-1153 2 p.

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  11 Citations (Scopus)

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• Jamesian epistemology formalised: An explication of 'The Will to Believe'

  Pettigrew, R., 1 Sep 2016, In: Episteme. 13, 3, p. 253-268 16 p.

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  • Epistemology 100%
  • William James 87%
  • Explication 83%
  • Disbelief 50%
  • Credence 47%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  364 Downloads (Pure)

• Remaking the elite university: An experiment in widening participation in the UK

  McLellan, J., Pettigrew, R. G. & Sperlinger, T., Mar 2016, In: Power and Education. 8, 1, p. 54-72 19 p.

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  • elite 100%
  • experiment 76%
  • participation 68%
  • university 59%
  • university administration 29%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  462 Downloads (Pure)

• Risk, rationality and expected utility theory

  Pettigrew, R., Jun 2016, In: Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 45, 5-6, p. 798-826 29 p.

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  • Expected Utility 100%
  • Orthodoxy 96%
  • Rationality 84%
  • Decision Theory 32%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  677 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  Accuracy and the Credence-Belief Connection

  Pettigrew, R. G., Jun 2015, In: Philosophers' Imprint. 15, 16, p. 1-20 20 p.

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  • Credence 100%
  • Probabilism 32%
  • Epistemic Values 29%
  • Philosopher 9%
  • Wishes 5%
  301 Downloads (Pure)

• Book Symposium: Transformative Experience and Decision Theory

  Pettigrew, R. G., Nov 2015, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 91, 3, p. 766-774 9 p.

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  • Book Symposium 100%
  • Decision Theory 74%
  32 Citations (Scopus)

  301 Downloads (Pure)

• Pluralism about Belief States

  Pettigrew, R. G., Jun 2015, In: Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 89, 1, p. 187-204 18 p.

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  • Pluralism 100%
  • Credence 64%
  • Categorical 40%
  • David Hume 28%
  • Wit 14%
  279 Downloads (Pure)

• What chance-credence norms should not be

  Pettigrew, R. G., 2015, In: Noûs. 49, 1, p. 177-196

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  5 Citations (Scopus)

  41 Downloads (Pure)
• 2014

  Accuracy and Evidence

  Pettigrew, R. G., 14 Mar 2014, In: Dialectica. 67, 4, p. 579-596 18 p.

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  • Credence 100%
  • Evidentials 38%
  • Monist 32%
  • Pluralist 25%
  • Proximity 22%
  18 Citations (Scopus)

  343 Downloads (Pure)

• Deference Done Right

  Pettigrew, R. G. & Titelbaum, M. G., 2014, In: Philosophers' Imprint. 14, 35, p. 1-19 19 p.

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  • Deference 100%
  • Credence 98%
  • Objective Chance 64%
  • Logical Probability 34%
  • Evidentials 22%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  170 Downloads (Pure)

• Two types of abstraction for structuralism

  Pettigrew, R. G. & Linnebo, Ø., Apr 2014, In: Philosophical Quarterly. 64, 255, p. 267-283 17 p.

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  • Structuralism 100%
  • Gottlob Frege 32%
  • Structuralist 31%
  • Mathematicians 29%
  18 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  A New Epistemic Utility Argument for the Principal Principle

  Pettigrew, R. G., Mar 2013, In: Episteme. 10, 1, p. 19-35 18 p.

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  • Principal Principle 100%
  • Credence 53%
  • Probabilism 25%
  • Objective Chance 13%
  39 Citations (Scopus)

  355 Downloads (Pure)

• Epistemic Utility and Norms for Credence

  Pettigrew, R. G., 3 Oct 2013, In: Philosophy Compass. 8, 10, p. 897-908 120 p.

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  • Credence 100%
  • Wishes 10%
  • Philosopher 8%
  23 Citations (Scopus)

  285 Downloads (Pure)
• 2012

  Accuracy, Chance, and the Principal Principle

  Pettigrew, R. G., Apr 2012, In: Philosophical Review. 121, 2, p. 241 - 275 35 p.

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  38 Citations (Scopus)

• Identity and Discernibility in Philosophy and Logic

  Ladyman, J. A. C., Linnebo, Ø. & Pettigrew, R. G., Mar 2012, In: Review of Symbolic Logic. 5, 1, p. 162 - 186 25 p.

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  • Philosophy 100%
  • Logic 66%
  • Logical Relation 57%
  • Model Theory 52%
  • Formal Languages 51%
  26 Citations (Scopus)

• Indispensability arguments and instrumental nominalism

  Pettigrew, RG., 2012, In: Review of Symbolic Logic. 5, 4, p. 687-709

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  2 Citations (Scopus)
• 2011

  Category theory as an autonomous foundation

  Linnebo, O. & Pettigrew, RG., Oct 2011, In: Philosophia Mathematica. 19, p. 227 - 254 28 p.

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  19 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  An Objective Justification of Bayesianism I: Measuring Inaccuracy

  Leitgeb, H. & Pettigrew, R. G., Apr 2010, In: Philosophy of Science. 77, 2, p. 201 - 235 35 p.

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  • Bayesianism 100%
  • Justification 64%
  • Conditionalization 34%
  • Epistemology 29%
  • Rigidity 26%
  107 Citations (Scopus)

• An Objective Justification of Bayesianism II: The Consequences of Minimizing Inaccuracy

  Leitgeb, H. & Pettigrew, R. G., Apr 2010, In: Philosophy of Science. 77, 2, p. 236 - 272 37 p.

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  • Bayesianism 100%
  • Justification 64%
  • Conditionalization 17%
  • Epistemology 14%
  • Objectivist 14%
  98 Citations (Scopus)

• Modelling Uncertainty

  Pettigrew, RG., 2010, In: Grazer Philosophische Studien. 80, p. 309 - 316 7 p.

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• 2009

  Aristotle on the subject matter of geometry

  Pettigrew, RG., 2009, In: Phronesis. 54, p. 239 - 260 21 p.

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  • Geometry 100%
  • Subject Matter 74%
  • Aristotle 64%
  • Metaphysics 44%
  • Aristotle's philosophy 39%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

• On interpretations of bounded arithmetic and bounded set theory

  Pettigrew, RG., 2009, In: Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. 50, p. 141 - 152 11 p.

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  4 Citations (Scopus)
• 2008

  Platonism and Aristotelianism in Mathematics

  Pettigrew, RG., Oct 2008, In: Philosophia Mathematica. 16, p. 310 - 332 22 p.

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  • Aristotelianism 100%
  • Platonism 90%
  • Mathematics 63%
  • Proper Names 56%
  • Interpretation 54%
  19 Citations (Scopus)