Krista Lawlor
Henry Waldgrave Stuart Memorial Professor
Philosophy
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Philosophy
Administrative Appointments
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Associate Professor, Stanford University (2007 - Present)
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Assistant Professor, Stanford University (1999 - 2007)
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Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan (1999 - 1999)
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Nina C. Crocker Research Fellow, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford (2007 - 2010)
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Ryskamp Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (2005 - 2006)
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Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan (1996 - 1997)
Honors & Awards
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Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Stanford University (2003)
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Pedagogy Award, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan (1996-1999)
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Member, Phi Beta Kappa
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Member, Program Committee, Pacific Division American Philosophical Association (2012 - 2015)
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Associate Editor, Erkenntnis (2007 - 2010)
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Member, Humanities and Sciences Curriculum Committee, Stanford University (2012 - 2014)
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Chair of Philosophy, Stanford University (2018 - Present)
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Chair, Committee on Academic Opportunities and Placement, American Philosophical Association (2013 - 2016)
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Director of Graduate Studies, Stanford University (2013 - 2017)
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Member, Steering Committee Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University (2002 - 2005)
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Member, Steering Committee, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University (2008 - Present)
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Member, Admissions Committee, Stanford University (2000 - 2003)
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Member, Tanner Library Committee, Stanford University (1999 - 2001)
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Colloquium Committee Chair, Stanford University (1999 - 2001)
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Colloquium Committee Chair, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
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Strategic Planning Committee Chair, Stanford University (2007 - 2008)
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Member, Senior Search Committee, Stanford University (2010 - 2010)
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Review of Philosophy Department Graduate Program, Stanford University (2010 - 2012)
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Placement co‐director, Stanford University (2011 - 2013)
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Member, SUES Subcommittee on Writing & Oral Communication, Stanford University (2010 - 2011)
Program Affiliations
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Symbolic Systems Program
Professional Education
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B.A., University of New Hampshire, Mathematics (1987)
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M.A., Tufts University, Philosophy (1991)
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Ph.D., University of Michigan, Philosophy (1999)
2024-25 Courses
- Advanced Topics in Epistemology
PHIL 383 (Spr) - Capstone seminar: Metaphilosophy
PHIL 194Y (Win) - Postwar Oxford Philosophy
OSPOXFRD 46 (Aut) - Skepticism
PHIL 11N (Spr) - Student Initiated Course: Agent-Based Modeling
PHIL 6SI (Aut) -
Independent Studies (3)
- Individual Work for Graduate Students
PHIL 240 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work, Undergraduate
PHIL 197 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Tutorial, Senior Year
PHIL 196 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Individual Work for Graduate Students
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Advanced Topics in Epistemology
PHIL 383 (Win) - Being Reasonable
PHIL 22Q (Aut) - Capstone seminar: Metaphilosophy
PHIL 194Y (Aut) - Epistemology
PHIL 184, PHIL 284 (Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Advanced Topics in Epistemology
PHIL 383 (Aut) - Being Reasonable
PHIL 22Q (Spr) - Dissertation Development Proseminar
PHIL 301 (Aut, Win) - Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 1 (Win)
- Advanced Topics in Epistemology
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Marianna Bible, Sarah Brophy, Austen Friesacher, Mathew McGuthry, Zihan Wang -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Max Forster, Sally Tilton -
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Daniel Friedman
All Publications
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A Genealogy of Reasonableness
MIND
2022
View details for DOI 10.1093/mind/fzac036
View details for Web of Science ID 000842654900001
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Telling as Joint Action: comments on Richard Moran's The Exchange of Words
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
2021; 102 (3): 701-707
View details for DOI 10.1111/phpr.12774
View details for Web of Science ID 000653643100012
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Impersonal Epistemic Standards
SKEPTICAL INVARIANTISM RECONSIDERED
2021: 33-53
View details for Web of Science ID 000841941000003
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Comments on What Is the Point of Knowledge?
ANALYSIS
2021; 81 (1): 107-114
View details for DOI 10.1093/analys/anaa066
View details for Web of Science ID 000667751300017
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Knowledge and reasonableness
SYNTHESE
2020
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11229-020-02803-z
View details for Web of Science ID 000554345700001
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Austin on Perception, Knowledge, and Meaning
INTERPRETING J. L. AUSTIN: CRITICAL ESSAYS
2018: 165–85
View details for Web of Science ID 000461793600009
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Precis of Assurance
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
2015; 90 (1): 194-204
View details for DOI 10.1111/phpr.12161
View details for Web of Science ID 000347315200009
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Replies to Leite, Turri, and Gerken
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
2015; 90 (1): 235-255
View details for DOI 10.1111/phpr.12163
View details for Web of Science ID 000347315200013
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Exploring the Stability of Belief: Resiliency and Temptation
INQUIRY-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2014; 57 (1): 1-27
View details for DOI 10.1080/0020174X.2014.858414
View details for Web of Science ID 000328811300001
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Files, Indexicals and Descriptivism
DISPUTATIO-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2013; 5 (36): 147-158
View details for DOI 10.2478/disp-2013-0014
View details for Web of Science ID 000213528900005
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New Essays on Singular Thought (Book Review)
MIND
2013; 122 (486): 560-564
View details for DOI 10.1093/mind/fzt017
View details for Web of Science ID 000327793300017
- Assurance: An Austinian Account of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims Oxford University Press. 2013
- Book Review of New Essays on Singular Thought Mind 2013
- Coreference and The Files Model of Cognition Disputatio 2013; 5 (36)
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Varieties of Coreference
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
2010; 81 (2): 485-495
View details for DOI 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00406.x
View details for Web of Science ID 000281898000009
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Knowing What One Wants
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
2009; 79 (1): 47-75
View details for Web of Science ID 000267323000003
- Book Review of Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009; 02 (22)
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Knowing Beliefs, Seeking Causes
AMERICAN IMAGO
2008; 65 (3): 335-356
View details for Web of Science ID 000262219000002
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Self-knowledge and resentment (Book Review)
MIND
2008; 117 (466): 469-472
View details for DOI 10.1093/mind/fzn059
View details for Web of Science ID 000256382000011
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Moore's paradox (G. E. Moore)
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
2008; 86 (3): 421-427
View details for DOI 10.1080/00048400802001970
View details for Web of Science ID 000258923300005
- Book Review of Self-Knowledge and Resentment Mind 2008; 117 (466): 469-472
- Self-knowledge of Belief: Seeking Causes American Imago 2008; 65 (3)
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A notional worlds approach to confusion
MIND & LANGUAGE
2007; 22 (2): 150-172
View details for Web of Science ID 000245157500003
- Book Review of Philosophical Psychology: a Contemporary Introduction Philosophical Books 2007; 48 (2): 180-182
- Memory The Philosophy of Mind 2006
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Reason and the past: The role of rationality in diachronic self-knowledge
SYNTHESE
2005; 145 (3): 467-495
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11229-005-6220-3
View details for Web of Science ID 000230964300009
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Confused thought and modes of presentation
PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY
2005; 55 (218): 21-36
View details for Web of Science ID 000226519000002
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LIVING WITHOUT CLOSURE
GRAZER PHILOSOPHISCHE STUDIEN
2005; 69 (1): 25-49
View details for Web of Science ID 000210738100003
- Ruth Millikan The Encyclopedia of Philosophy MacMillan. 2005
- Enough is Enough: Pretense and Invariance in the Semantics of ‘knows that’ Philosophical Perspectives 2005; 19: 211-236
- Living without Closure Epistemological Contextualism 2005; 69: 93-117
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Enough is enough: Pretense and invariance in the semantics of "knows that"
NOUS
2005: 211-236
View details for Web of Science ID 000234759200011
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Elusive reasons: a problem for first-person authority
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
2003; 16 (4): 549-564
View details for DOI 10.1080/0951508032000166969
View details for Web of Science ID 000188239600005
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Deliberation and agential authority: a rejoinder to Ferrero
PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY
2003; 16 (4): 579-584
View details for DOI 10.1080/0951508032000166987
View details for Web of Science ID 000188239600007
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Memory, anaphora, and content preservation
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
2002; 109 (2): 97-119
View details for Web of Science ID 000177424800001
- New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts Studies in Philosophy edited by Nozick, R. Garland Publishing, Inc. New York, NY. 2001