British-American philosopher who has contributed to epistemology (the lottery paradox, knowledge-how), metaphysics (four-dimensionalism, material objects), and philosophy of language.
Knowledge and Lotteries: if you know you will lose the lottery, you cannot deduce that you have enough money for your holiday; this creates problems for the principle that knowledge is closed under known entailment. Metaphysical Essays: defends four-dimensionalism and scepticism about ordinary object ontology. Relativism about knowledge.
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