Declan Smithies is Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University. He works primarily on issues at the intersection between epistemology and the philosophy of mind. He is co-editor of Introspection and Consciousness (OUP 2012) and Attention: Philosophical and Psychological Essays (OUP 2011).
Declan Smithies' book is an extraordinarily strong contribution to debates in philosophy of mind and epistemology. It is ambitious and expansive in scope while being extremely rigorously argued. It will be required reading for epistemologists, as well as for philosophers of mind interested in the value of consciousness for our lives as thinkers and knowers. * Robert J. Howell, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * an impressive achievement that is both uncommonly wide-ranging and admirably systematic * Elijah Chudnoff, Philosophical Review * thought-provoking, creative, and ambitious * Anna-Sara Malmgren, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research * a careful, well-argued, and wide-ranging exploration of many key issues in contemporary epistemology * Richard Feldman, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research * Declan Smithies' brilliant book sets a new benchmark for developing a broadly internalist vision of how consciousness, mental content and justification hang together. * Thomas Raleigh, Asian Journal of Philosophy *