Nenad Popovic

My main research areas are in Epistemology, Logic, and Philosophy of Education. Within epistemology, I am particularly interested in scepticism and recent responses to the sceptical puzzle: epistemological contextualism and subject-sensitive invariantism. I am currently working on a version of subject-sensitive invariantism that utilizes James' concept of alive and dead ideas, instead of explicating the additional condition for knowledge in terms of salience of practical interests of the subject.

My other major research area is in logic, tied mostly to the Liar's paradox. My ambition is to formulate a solution that combines the advantages of two approaches: the view that the Liar is without a truth-value, but explicated in the framework of Tarski's object language/metalanguage distinction.

Publications

'A Pragmatic Answer to "Why be rational?"' (under review in the Journal of Philosophy of Education).
'Does Time-travel Lead to a Series of Unlikely Coincidences?' (under review, Philosophical Studies).
'A Defect in "An Alleged Defect in Getter Counter-examples"' (under review, Philosophical Studies).

Work in Progress

'Liveness, not Salience' (argues that replacing the concept of salience with that of liveness helps block standard counter-examples against both contextualism and subject-sensitive invariantism).
'Another Shot at the Liar and the Strengthened Liar: The Language-Level Approach Revisited'.
'One, Two, Three--Logic' (an elementary logic textbook treating both formal and informal logic in an accessible but rigorous way).

Teaching

Elementary Symbolic Logic
Contemporary Moral Problems
Introduction to Philosophy
Critical Thinking
Business Ethics