American philosopher who has worked on the epistemology of perception, cognitive penetration (whether beliefs can penetrate perceptual experience), and reliabilism.
Perception and Basic Beliefs: defends a reliabilist account of perceptual justification — perception is reliable in the right conditions, grounding non-inferential justified belief. Contributed to the cognitive penetration debate.
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