Contact Information
Kelly Becker
156 Coordinator
Graduate Placement Director
Humanities 527
MSC 03-2140
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Fax: 505.277.6362
E-mail: kbecker@unm.edu
Kelly Becker, Associate Professor
- B.S. (University of Minnesota, '88)
- B.A. (University of Pittsburgh, '91)
- Ph.D. (UC, San Diego, '99)
Epistemology, Philosophy of Language and Mind, Quine.
Has recently published papers in Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntinis, History of Philosophy Quarterly, American Philosophical Quarterly (July, 2002 and January, 2004), Dialectica, Metaphilosophy, Philosophical Studies, Acta Analytica, Philosophia, and Mind (book review). Becker's article, "Reliabilism," appears in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Prof. Becker and Tim Black are publishing a collection
of new, state‑of‑the‑art essays on the sensitivity principle in epistemology.
The volume will be published with Cambridge UP in the Summer of 2012.
Further details here:
http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107004238
Prof. Becker's book, Epistemology Modalized, which includes critical discussions of extant versions of modal epistemologies and a defense of the thesis that knowledge is reliably formed, sensitive true belief, was published by Routledge in 2007. The book is now available in paperback, here and here .
Prof. Becker's C.V. is available here.
