Joshua Schechter has research interests in epistemology, metaethics, the philosophy of logic, and formal logic. His earliest research focused on the epistemology of logic and inferential reasoning. This work aimed to develop the most pressing epistemic challenges concerning logic and inference and then to answer them. In more recent work, he has further developed his views in this area as well as explored the following additional topics: (i) the epistemology of other a priori domains, notably the epistemology of moral belief; (ii) general epistemological issues, including the theoretical significance of the a priori/a posteriori distinction and the question of which epistemic statuses (e.g., knowledge, justification, or rational credence) are primary; (iii) the rationality of mental states other than beliefs, such as emotions and desires; and (iv) the nature of logic and validity.

George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, 2019

External Faculty Fellowship, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, 2015-2016

NEH Summer Stipend, Summer 2009

Visiting Fellow, New College, Oxford University, Hilary Term 2009

Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, 2008-2009

American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division
Association for Symbolic Logic
 

Joshua Schechter regularly teaches undergraduate courses in epistemology, logic (at all levels), paradoxes, the philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy in the early part of the twentieth century. He has led graduate seminars on the nature of logic, the metaphysics and epistemology of modality, rationality, skepticism, inquiry, non-causal explanation, moral epistemology, the epistemological significance of etiology, and the a priori. He also has teaching interests in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of science.