Eyal Tal

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

eyaltal@brandeis.edu

Departments/Programs

Philosophy

Degrees

University of Arizona, Ph.D.
University of Haifa, B.A.

Expertise

Epistemology; Ethics

Profile

My interests lie mainly in epistemology, ethics, metaethics, metaphysics, philosophy of psychiatry, and philosophy of science. My research focuses on the normative import of evidence that our beliefs are irrational, and on how uncertain we may be that we believe and act as we should. I'm also interested in epistemic defeat, misleading evidence, Moorean arguments, moral fetishism, Newcomb's Problem, ought-implies-can, and normative antirealism.

Courses Taught

PHIL	1a	Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL	6a	Introduction to Symbolic Logic
PHIL	17a	Introduction to Ethics
PHIL	123b	Neuroethics

Scholarship

Tal, Eyal & Silva, Paul. "Knowledge-First Evidentialism and the Dilemmas of Self-Impact." Epistemic Dilemmas. Ed. Kevin McCain, Scott Stapleford & Matthias Steup., 2021 (forthcoming)

Tal, Eyal. "Is Higher-Order Evidence Evidence?." Philosophical Studies (2020).

Tal, Eyal. "Disagreement and EasyBootstrapping." Episteme (2019).

Tal, Eyal. "Self-Intimation, Infallibility, and Higher-Order Evidence." Erkenntnis (2018).

Tal, Eyal & Comesaña, Juan. "Evidence of evidence is evidence (trivially)." Analysis (2015).

Tal, Eyal & Comesaña, Juan. "Is Evidence of Evidence Evidence?." Noûs (2015).