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.
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
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)