Scott F Aikin was born on 1971 and is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he holds a joint appointment in Classics.
11 Facts About Scott Aikin
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Scott Aikin has contributed to the public debate about the ethics of belief in religious contexts, in Reasonable Atheism.
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In "Prospects for Moral Epistemic Infinitism," Scott Aikin argues that these are requirements of moral knowledge.
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Scott Aikin is a proponent of the epistemic theory of argument, according to which the primary norms of argumentation are those that promote the communication of knowledge.
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Scott Aikin further argues that the main competitor theories of argument are either self-refuting or implicitly epistemic.
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Scott Aikin poses an analysis of ad hominem tu quoque arguments that establishes the conditions for determining relevance of hypocrisy.
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Scott Aikin has proposed a variety of straw man fallacies: the representational man, the selectional man, the hollow man, and the iron man.
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Finally, Scott Aikin defends, along with Trudy Govier, the minimally adversarial theory of argument.
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In particular, Scott Aikin has argued that the Academics' "Argument from Second Place" is a unique positive epistemic argument for skepticism.
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Further, Academic epistemology, Scott Aikin has argued, is well-placed to dovetail with republican political views.
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Scott Aikin is a proponent of the neo-pragmatist movement in American philosophy.