Curriculum Vitae
Lydia McGrew
May, 2009
Education:
Ph. D. in English Literature, Vanderbilt University, 1995
Areas of Specialization:
Epistemology: Foundationalism; internalism/externalism controversies; metaepistemology; the Gettier problem; Bayesian inference and confirmation theory; design inferences
English Literature: Renaissance non-dramatic literature; Edmund Spenser
Conference Presentations:
“Jeffrey Conditioning, Rigidity, and Foundationalism,” presented at the Formal Epistemology Workshop, May, 2006.
“What Grandma Can’t Know,” presented at Society of Christian Philosophers, Pacific Division, Biola University, La Mirada, CA, February 28, 2004.
“Mathematics, Probability, and Fine-tuning: Disentangling the Issues,” presented at “The Mathematics of Fine-Tuning,” Symposium at Notre Dame University, April 25-26, 2003.
"Likely Machines: a Response to Elliott Sober's 'Testability'." Presented at "Design and its Critics," Concordia University, WI, June 2000.
Publications:
Book
Internalism and Epistemology: The Architecture of Reason. With Timothy McGrew. A book-length treatment of metaepistemology from a foundationalist, internalist standpoint. Routledge, 2007.
Articles
“The Argument from Miracles: A Cumulative Case for the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth,” With Timothy McGrew. In The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, edited by W. L. Craig and J. P. Moreland (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 593-662.
“The Irrational Faith of the Naked Public Square,” The Christendom Review 1:1 (December, 2008) (Accessed 12/05/08)
“Foundationalism, Probability, and Mutual Support,” With Timothy McGrew, Erkenntnis 68 (2008):55-77.
“On the Historical Argument: A Rejoinder to Plantinga,” With Timothy McGrew, Philosophia Christi 8 (2006):23-38.
“Likelihoods, Multiple Universes, and Epistemic Context.” Philosophia Christi 7 (2005): 475-81.
"A Response to Robin Collins and Alexander R. Pruss." With Timothy McGrew. Philosophia Christi 7 (2005): 425-43.
“Testability, Likelihoods, and Design.” Philo 7:1 (Spring-Summer 2004):5-21.
“Foundationalism,” entry in on-line ISCID Encyclopedia of Science and Philosophy,
http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Foundationalism
June, 2003.
"Agency and the Metalottery Fallacy." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80:4 (December, 2002):440-464.
“Probabilities and the Fine Tuning Argument: A Sceptical View.” With Timothy McGrew and Eric Vestrup. Mind 110 (October, 2001): 1027-37. Anthologized in God and Design, ed. Neil A. Manson (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 200-208.
"What's Wrong with Epistemic Circularity." With Timothy McGrew. Dialogue 39 (2000): 219-39.
"Blaming the Designer." Origins and Design 20:1 (Spring 2000): 9-10.
"Foundationalism, Transitivity and Confirmation." With Timothy McGrew. Journal of Philosophical Research 25 (2000): 47-66.
"Blaming the Handyman." Origins and Design 19:2 (Winter 1999): 8.
"Psychology for Armchair Philosophers." With Timothy McGrew. Idealistic Studies 28 (1998): 147-57.
"Internalism and the Collapse of the Gettier Problem." With Timothy McGrew. Journal of Philosophical Research 23 (1998): 239-56.
"Level Connections in Epistemology." With Timothy McGrew. American Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1997): 85-94.
"Reason, Rhetoric, and the Price of Linguistic Revision." Public Affairs Quarterly 11:3 (July, 1997): 255-79.
Book Reviews
Review of William Dembski, ed., Mere Creation. Philosophia Christi (1999): 160-62.
Review of William Dembski, No Free Lunch. Science and Religion Forum Reviews, 41, June, 2003:9-12.
Work in Progress:
Tentative title: “Bayes Factors, Reliability, and the Analysis of Testimony,” for conference on Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Religion, Leuven, Belgium, June, 2009.
“Probability Kinematics and Probability Dynamics,” accepted and forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical Research.
Ongoing Research Areas:
Bayesian analysis of testimony
Bayesian inference and strong foundationalism
Bayes factors as a clue to answering deceiver scenarios