I am a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Virtues and Vocations Project at the University of Notre Dame and a FWF Research Fellow with the University of Graz. My research has appeared in Mind, Noûs, Philosophical Studies, Philosophers’ Imprint, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, amongst other venues, and my work has been supported by a number of fellowships, grants, and awards, totaling over $100,000 in external funding. My work on public philosophy has been featured at the Prindle Post, and I am also a pedagogy contributor at the Blog of the APA, the Daily Nous, PEA Soup, the Philosopher’s Cocoon.
Before coming to Notre Dame, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cologne's Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition, a Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow at Florida State University, and the Mellon Course Design Coordinator for the Philosophy as a Way of Life Project. I received my PhD in philosophy from the University of Arizona, and while dissertating, I also spent time as a visiting researcher at Brown, Notre Dame, and Rutgers. For more information, please contact me at rwsiscoe@gmail.com.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Research
Ignorance and Awareness | Noûs, with Paul Silva (Forthcoming) (Draft)
The Epistemic Aims of Democracy | Philosophy Compass (Forthcoming) (Draft)
Grounding and the Epistemic Regress Problem | Erkenntnis (Forthcoming) (Open Access)
Epistemic Democracy and the Truth Connection | Public Reason (Forthcoming) (Draft)
Being Rational Enough | Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2023) 101.1: 111-127 (Draft)
Checking and the Argument from Inquiry | Acta Analytica (2023) 38: 69-78 (Draft) (Invited commentary on Guido Melchior’s Knowing and Checking)
Grounding, Understanding, and Explanation | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2022) 103.4: 791-815 (Draft)
Rational Supererogation and Epistemic Permissivism | Philosophical Studies (2022) 179:571–591 (Draft)
Thomas Reid, the Internalist | Journal of Modern Philosophy (2022) 4.1: 10 (Open Access)
Credal Accuracy and Knowledge | Synthese (2022) 200.163 (Open Access)
Real and Ideal Rationality | Philosophical Studies (2022) 179: 879–910 (Draft)
Accuracy Across Doxastic Attitudes | American Philosophical Quarterly (2022) 59.2: 201–217 (Draft)
Belief, Rational and Justified | Mind (2021) 130.517: 59-83 (Draft)
Grounding and A Priori Epistemology | Synthese (2021) 199: 11445–11463 (Draft)
Does Being Rational Require Being Ideally Rational? | Philosophical Topics (2021) 49.2: 245-266 (Draft)
No Work for a Theory of Epistemic Dispositions | Synthese (2021) 198.4: 3477-3498 (Draft)
Stoic Virtue: A Contemporary Interpretation | Philosophers' Imprint (2020) 20.18: 1-20 (Open Access)
The Demandingness of Virtue | The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2020) 18.1: 1-22 (Draft)
Incoherent but Reasonable: A Defense of Truth-Abstinence in Political Liberalism | Social Theory and Practice, with Alex Schaefer (2020) 46.3: 573–603 (Draft)
Teaching
Philosophical Dialogue for Beginners | AAPT Studies in Pedagogy, with Zac Odermatt (Forthcoming) (Draft)
Teaching and Learning Guide for: The Epistemic Aims of Democracy | Philosophy Compass (Forthcoming) (Draft)
Condorcet’s Jury Theorem and Democracy | 1,000 Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology (2022) (Open Access)
Seeking to Understand | Teaching Philosophy, with Zac Odermatt (2022) 45.4: 477-499 (Draft)
Public Philosophy & Popular Teaching Contributions
Naughty or Nice: Should We Measure How Ethical We Are? | The Prindle Post (December 21, 2023)
The True, the Good, and the Beautiful: Flourishing and the Liberal Arts | Good Work (December 2023)
Should We Try to Live Forever? | The Prindle Post (November 8, 2023)
Flourishing as a Physician at Columbia | Good Work (November 2023)
Can the Oppressed Afford to Be Humble?: Avoiding Vice While Resisting Domination | The Prindle Post (November 1, 2023)
Leading with Character: Virtue Formation for Aspiring School Leaders | Good Work (October 2023)
Race, Gender, and the Civic Virtues | The Prindle Post (October 2, 2023)
The Empathetic Democracy: Countering Polarization with Considerate Civic Discourse | The Prindle Post (September 25, 2023)
Learning to Live, Not Just to Think: How Philosophy is Changing Lives at Notre Dame | Blog of the American Philosophical Association, with Blake Ziegler, Evan Dutmer, Haley Dutmer, and Paul Blaschko (September 12, 2023)
Philosophical Dialogue 101 | Blog of the American Philosophical Association, with Zac Odermatt (August 29, 2023)
Optimal Work: Making Work an Expression of Your Highest Ideals | Good Work (August 2023)
Honesty and the Academic Vocation | The Prindle Post (July 21, 2023)
The Ethical Tradeoffs of Medical Surveillance: Tracking, Compassion, and Moral Formation | The Prindle Post (July 10, 2023)
Ideal Justice, Nonideal Justice, and Affirmative Action | The Prindle Post (June 5, 2023)
Education, Entrepreneurship, and Character | Good Work (May 2023)
Intellectual Humility and the Public Square | The Prindle Post (May 24, 2023)
Degrees of Rationality | New Work in Philosophy (April 3, 2023)
The Moral Virtues and the Aims of the University | The Prindle Post (March 28, 2023)
Character in Times of Crisis | Good Work (March 2023)
Should the Government Mandate Virtue? | The Prindle Post (March 8, 2023)
Are Voters to Blame for the Polarization Crisis? | The Prindle Post (February 7, 2023)
Civic Virtue as an Antidote to Political Polarization | Good Thought (October 27, 2022)
Intergroup Dialogue in the Philosophy Classroom | Daily Nous, with Zac Odermatt (July 12, 2022)
Undergraduate Philosophy Club: Florida State University | Blog of the American Philosophical Association, with Dan Crook (July 14, 2021)
What Makes a Course Effective? | Blog of the American Philosophical Association (February 10, 2021)
What Makes a Course Engaging? | Blog of the American Philosophical Association (December 16, 2020)
No Online, Ed-Tech Tool Will Save the Fall Semester | Blog of the American Philosophical Association (September 23, 2020)
How Do I Know if I am Improving at Online Teaching? | The Philosophers' Cocoon (September 3, 2020)
Creating Community in the Online Format | Philosophy, Ethics, Academia (August 24, 2020)
How Should We Grade Students During a Pandemic? | Daily Nous (August 11, 2020)