Research Interests

Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Language, Early Modern Philosophy

 

Career and Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Junior Reseach Fellow, Somerville College

Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2012

M.A., Yale University, 2005

 

Publications

'Defeatism Defeated' (with Max Baker-Hytch), Philosophical Perspectives, forthcoming.

'Lying, Belief, and Knowledge,' in The Oxford Handbook of Lying, ed. Jorg Meibauer, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

'Gricean Quality', Nous, forthcoming.

'Expert Opinion and Second-Hand Knowledge', Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.

'Evil and Evidence' (with John Hawthorne and Yoaav Isaacs), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, vol. 7 (2016), forthcoming.

'Iffy Predictions and Proper Expectations' (with John Turri), Synthese 191 (2014): 1857-1866.

'Believing on Authority', European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (2014): 133-144.

'Knowledge Norms', Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2014.

'Dubious Objections from Iterated Conjunctions', Philosophical Studies 162 (2013): 355-358.

'Assertion, Knowledge, and Predictions', Analysis 72 (2012): 102-105.

'Two More for the Knowledge Account of Assertion', Analysis (2011): 684-687.

'The Modal Gap: the Objective Problem of Lessing's Ditch(es) and Kierkegaard's Subjective Reply', Religious Studies 42 (2006): 27-44. 

 

Contact Details

matthew.benton@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfop0431