The Epistemology of Desire and the Problem of Nihilism

Allan Hazlett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He was previously on the faculties of Texas Tech University, Fordham University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of New Mexico. He has worked on several issues in the theory of knowledge, social and political epistemology, and metaethics, and teaches courses in these areas and in the philosophy of art. In addition to many journal articles and book chapters, he is the author of A Luxury of the Understanding: On the Value of True Belief (Oxford University Press, 2013) and A Critical Introduction to Skepticism (Bloomsbury, 2014).