Faculty

Baron Reed
Assistant Professor
Email: b-reed@northwestern.edu

Ph.D. Brown University. Baron Reed specializes in epistemology and metaphysics and has research and teaching interests in both ancient and early modern philosophy as well. His recent research focuses on skepticism, the relevance of practical interests to knowledge, self-knowledge, and the value of knowledge. Some of his recent work can be found in The Journal of Philosophy , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Synthese , and Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy .

PERSONAL WEBPAGE.

Writings and Recently Taught Courses

Selection of Recent Articles

• “A Defense of Stable Invariantism,” Noûs (forthcoming).
• "A New Argument for Skepticism,” Philosophical Studies (forthcoming).
• "Self-Knowledge and Rationality," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).
• "The Long Road to Skepticism,"The Journal of Philosophy 104 (2007): 236-62.
• "Epistemic Circularity Squared? Skepticism about Common Sense," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (2006): 186-97.
• "The Stoics' Account of the Cognitive Impression," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 23 (2002): 147-80.
• "How to Think about Fallibilism," Philosophical Studies 107 (2002): 143-57.

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CURRENT CV.

Recently Taught Courses & Research-related Links:

PHIL 255 Theory of Knowledge
PHIL 210-3 History of Philosophy: Early Modern
PHIL 312 Studies in Modern Philosophy: Descartes and Spinoza

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