NYU Dept of Philosophy
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003

Education and Employment

Associate Professor

NYU, Dept. of Philosophy, 2005-

Associate Professor

Princeton University, Dept. of Philosophy, 2002-2005

Assistant Professor

Harvard University, Dept. of Philosophy, 1997-2002

Instructor

Harvard University, Dept. of Philosophy, 1996-1997

Ph.D. in Philosophy

Princeton University, 1997

B.A. in Philosophy, summa cum laude

Cornell University, 1991

Areas of Specialization

Areas of Competence

Publications

"Immunity to Error through Misidentification"

Philosophical Topics 26 (1999)

"The Skeptic and the Dogmatist"

Nous 34 (2000)
Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual 23 (2001)

"Highlights of Recent Epistemology"

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (2001)

Comments on Sosa's "Relevant Alternatives, Contextualism Included"

Philosophical Studies 119 (2004)

"What's Wrong with Moore's Argument?"

Philosophical Issues 14 (2004)

"There Is Immediate Justification"

in Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, edited by Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (Blackwell, 2005)

"What's So Bad about Living in the Matrix?"

published online in 2003 at http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_fr_pryor.html
Philosophers Explore the Matrix, ed. by Christopher Grau (OUP, 2005)

"Bad Intensions" (co-authored with Alex Byrne)

in The Two-Dimensional Framework, ed. by Manuel García-Carpintero and Josep Macià (OUP, 2006)

"Hyper-Reliability and Apriority"

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106 (2006)

"Reasons and That-Clauses"

in Philosophical Issues 17 (2007)

"Externalism about Content and McKinsey-style Reasoning"

in Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology, ed. by Sanford Goldberg (OUP, 2007)

"When Warrant Transmits"

will appear in Wittgenstein, Epistemology and Mind: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright, ed. by Annalisa Coliva (to be published by Oxford)

"More on Hyper-Reliability and Apriority"

will appear in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (2008) devoted to Truth and Its Deformities

Presentations

TBA

Urbana-Champaign, March 2009

TBA

Oberlin, March 2009

TBA

Austin, November 2008

TBA

World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul, July 2008

Comments on Juan Comesana

NYU Conference on Skepticism, La Pietra, Florence, June 2008

TBA

University of York, May 2008

"When Warrant Transmits"

Brown, April 2008

(1) "Uncertainty and Undermining" and (2) "When Warrant Transmits"

St Andrews, Nov 2007

"When Warrant Transmits"

Boulder, Colorado, Nov 2007

"When Warrant Transmits"

Seoul, South Korea, June-July 2007

(1) "When Warrant Transmits" and (2) "Uncertainty and Undermining"

RSSS/ANU, June 2007

"When Warrant Transmits"

University of Sydney, May 2007

"When Warrant Transmits"

Hong Kong University, May 2007

"Perceptual Justification and Moore’s Proof of the External World"

University at Buffalo, April 2007

Comments on Chalmers

Pacific Division APA; San Francisco, April 2007

"Justified perceptual belief"

Reed College, April 2007

"Reasons and that-clauses"

SOFIA, Mexico, January 2007

"Warrant-transmission"

Indiana, November 2006

"Warrant-transmission"

Keynote Speaker for Rochester Grad Conference, October 2006

"Warrant-transmission"

CUNY, October 2006

"Warrant-transmission"

UNAM, Mexico City, October 2006

"Hyper-Reliability and Apriority"

Aristotelian Society, London, May 2006

"Externalism about Content and McKinsey-style Reasoning"

St Andrews, May 2006

"Hyper-Reliability and Apriority"

St Andrews, May 2006

"Hyper-Reliability and Apriority"

Vermont, April 2006

"Fatalism: Do Our Efforts Make Any Difference?"

West Point, March 2006

Comments on Michael Devitt and George Bealer

Eastern Division APA; New York, December 2005

Comments on John Hawthorne

Rutgers Semantics Workshop, September 2005

"Uncertainty and Undermining"

Formal Epistemology Workshop, University of Texas at Austin, May 2005

"Externalism about Content and McKinsey-style Reasoning"

Conference on Internalism and Externalism in Semantics and Epistemology, Kentucky, April 2005

"Externalism about Content and McKinsey-style Reasoning"

Univ of Barcelona, April 2005

Two-week Epistemology Seminar

Univ of Barcelona, Mar-April 2005

Two-day Graduate Workshop

Brown, March 2005

Comments on Paul Boghossian

SOFIA XVI Conference, Huatulco, Mexico, January 2005

"Acquaintance and Evidence"

USC, November 2004

"An Epistemic Theory of Acquaintance"

Workshop on De Re Representation; Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, September 2004

"Indexicality and A Priority"

Workshop on the A Priori, Syracuse, August 2004

"Indexicality and A Priority"

Conference on Self-Knowledge and the Self, Bigorio, Switzerland, August 2004

"An Epistemic Theory of Acquaintance"

Conference on Consciousness and Intentionality, La Pietra, Florence, June 2004

"An Epistemic Theory of Acquaintance"

Conference on Content and Concepts, Santa Barbara, February 2004

"An Epistemic Theory of Acquaintance"

Eastern Division APA; Washington DC, December 2003

"What is De Re Thought?"

Berkeley, October 2003

"What's Allowed to be a Justifier?"

University of York, June 2003

"What's Allowed to be a Justifier?"

Jowett Society, Oxford, June 2003

"Epistemic Agency"

University of Kansas, April 2003

Comments on John Hawthorne

Pacific Division APA; San Francisco, March 2003

"In Defense of Immediate Justification"

Princeton, March 2003

"In Defense of Immediate Justification"

UNC-Chapel Hill, January 2003

"Anti-Given Arguments and Epistemic Recipes"

NYU, December 2002

Comments on Ernest Sosa

Conference on Contextualism in Epistemology and Beyond; U. Mass-Amherst, October 2002

"Does Moore's Argument Beg the Question?"

Summer School on Epistemology and Cognition; Paris, July 2002

"Externalism about Content and McKinsey-style Reasoning"

Colloquium on Self-Knowledge; Univ. of Utah, April 2002

"Is Moore's Argument an Example of Transmission-Failure?"

Pacific Division APA; Seattle, March 2002

"Externalism about Content and McKinsey-style Reasoning"

Brown, March 2002

"Is Moore's Argument an Example of Transmission-Failure?"

Wake Forest University, November 2001

"Is Moore's Argument an Example of Transmission-Failure?"

Univ. of Arizona, November 2001

"Is Moore's Argument an Example of Transmission-Failure?"

UNAM Conference on Skepticism; Mexico City, August 2001

"Bad Intensions" (with Alex Byrne)

Barcelona Workshop on Reference: Two-Dimensionalism; June 2001

"Externalism about Content and Modus Ponens Reasoning"

Stanford, May 2000

Roundtable panelist

Rutgers Epistemology Conference, April 2001

"Externalism about Content and Modus Ponens Reasoning"

UNAM Conference on Language, Mind and World; Tlaxcala, Mexico, March 2001

"Externalism about Content and Modus Ponens Reasoning"

Penn, March 2001

"Closure and Externalism about Content"

Univ. of Rochester, November 2000

Comments on Gabriele Usberti

Conference on Justification and Meaning; Siena, June 2000

"What Do We Know A Priori about Water?"

Brown, May 2000

Comments on Michael Tooley

Pacific Division APA; Albuquerque, April 2000

"What Do We Know A Priori about Water?"

Rutgers, March 2000

"What Do We Know A Priori about Water?"

Brandeis, March 2000

"What Do We Know A Priori about Water?"

Vassar, February 2000

"A Dogmatist's Account of Perceptual Justification"

NYU, April 1999

"The Best Form of Skeptical Argument"

Columbia, December 1998

"The Skeptic and the Dogmatist"

University of York, June 1998

Comments on Scott Sturgeon

Eastern Division APA; Philadelphia, December 1997

"Do We Perceive Things or Their Effects?"

UCLA, January 1996

"Do We Perceive Things or Their Effects?"

Univ. of Michigan, January 1996

"Deflating Experience"

European Congress of Analytic Philosophy; Aix en Provence, April 1993

Research