Luis Rosa

I am a philosophy lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis. 

My research deals with things that muddle the mind and get in the way of its search for knowledge. That includes uncertainty, poor or misleading evidence, ambiguity, doubts concerning our cognitive powers, disagreement, indeterminacy, incoherence, paradoxes, defective questions, situations that call for suspension of judgment. The path of an inquirer is obscured by such elements, and that is one great motivation I have for studying them.

I have also been researching about the meanings of normative expressions such as 'ought' and 'should', on the one hand, and those of attitude verbs such as 'believe',  'doubt' and 'want', on the other. I want to assess the prospects of paraphrasing sentences featuring those expressions through less opaque sentences—e.g., sentences describing the relationship between means and ends, physical processes and patterns of behavior.

Email: lrosa@wustl.edu