19 Facts About Robert Audi

Robert Audi is O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, and previously held a Chair in the Business School there.

Robert Audi has written important works of political philosophy, particularly on the relationship between church and state.

Robert Audi is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society of Christian Philosophers.

Robert Audi has developed an account of autonomy, which he characterizes as the self-governing power to bring reasons to bear in directing one's conduct and influencing one's propositional attitudes.

Robert Audi earned his BA from Colgate University and his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan.

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Robert Audi taught initially at the University of Texas at Austin, and then for many years as the Charles J Mach University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln before moving to University of Notre Dame as Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Management, and the David E Gallo Chair in Ethics.

Robert Audi has served as General Editor of the First Edition and Second Edition of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy.

Robert Audi has served as the general editor for "Modern Readings in Epistemology", as well as for "Modern readings in Metaphysics".

Robert Audi's mother, a medical doctor and faculty at NYU Medical School, was an influence.

Robert Audi considers that foundationalism is usually taken to be infallible.

Robert Audi thinks that basic beliefs need not be necessary truths, but merely have some structure which makes epistemic transition possible.

Robert Audi develops a comprehensive account of rationality that covers both the theoretical and the practical side of rationality.

Robert Audi compares such a mental state to a porch that is supported by various pillars.

Robert Audi is committed to a form of foundationalism: the idea that justified beliefs, or in his case, rational states in general, can be divided into two groups: the foundation and the superstructure.

Robert Audi's foundationalism is different from what he terms "Cartesian foundationalism" in the sense that all justification, including justification from basic sources, is defeasible.

Robert Audi asserts that all the basic sources providing justification for the foundational mental states come from experience.

Robert Audi characterizes autonomy as the self-governing power to bring reasons to bear in directing one's conduct and influencing one's propositional attitudes.

Robert Audi agrees with this school in the sense that we should bring reasons to bear in a principled way.

Robert Audi suggests that we should adopt a position known as axiological objectivism in order to avoid this counterintuitive conclusion.