Finn Spicer

Research Interests

Finn comes back to Bristol (city of his childhood) from London, where he studied for his MPhil and PhD at King’s College. He did his undergraduate degree at Cambridge, studying mathematics and philosophy. His MPhil research sought to build a naturalist epistemology for mathematical knowledge; his PhD is an investigation of the concepts we use to form beliefs about our own and other’s mental states, and the epistemic status of those beliefs. Finn has also written and spoken on the nature of conscious belief, Moore’s paradox, the question of individualism about mental content, the nature of psychological explanation, the semantics of propositional attitude reports and the philosophy of emotion (but not all at once).

Office Hours

Tuesdays 2-3 pm and Fridays 12-1 pm

Room 1.29, Telephone 928 7827

Email: finn.spicer 'at' bristol.ac.uk

Publications

Spicer, F. (2004a) “On the Identity of Concepts, and the Compatibility of Externalism and Privileged Access” American Philosophical Quarterly Vol.41,2. (pdf)

Spicer, F. (2004b) “Emotional Behaviour and the Scope of Belief-Desire Explanation” in D. Evans and P. Cruse, eds, Emotion Evolution and Rationality (Oxford, Oxford University Press). (pdf)

Spicer, F. (2006) “Epistemic Intuitions and Epistemic Contextualism” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. LXXII (pdf)

Spicer, F. (2007a) “Knowledge and the Heuristics of Folk Epistemology” forthcoming in New Waves in Epistemology, ed. V. Hendricks and D. Pritchard, (Palgrave Macmillan). (pdf)

Spicer, F. (2007b) “Are there any conceptual truths about knowledge?” forthcoming in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, CVIII. (link)

Spicer, F. (2008) “On always being right (about what one is thinking)” forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Philosophy (pdf)