On the subject of graduate study, here is an option that might be attractive to students with interests in logic and its application. The European Master of Science Program in Computational Logic is a two year program run in collaboration … Continue reading
Some prospective graduate students in philosophy have faculty advisors at their undergraduate institutions who work hard at keeping current about the state of the various graduate programs and who can give the students excellent advice in choosing which graduate programs … Continue reading
Thirteen newly commissioned papers are collected in a volume edited by me, Perspectives in Contemporary Epistemology, a special, fiftieth anniversary issue of the Brazilian journal Veritas (vol. 50, no. 4, December 2005, published by PUCRS in Porto Alegre). The publisher … Continue reading
Synthese – An International Journal for Epistemology, Logic and Philosophy of Science hosts its first annual conference at the Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen, October 3- 5 , 2007. The conference is sponsored by PHIS – The Danish Research School in … Continue reading
Rae Langton (“Elusive Knowledge of Things in Themselves,” Australasian Journal, 2004) and Jonathan Schaffer (“Quiddistic Knolwledge,” Phil. Studies, 2005) have recently argued that the ‘skeptical’ thesis defended by David Lewis in “Ramseyan Humility” is no different, when it comes to … Continue reading
The new (2006-08) Philosophical Gourmet Report has been out for a few days now; it’s available here. Especially relevant to this blog is the PGR’s rankings of programs in the area of epistemology. In the near future, I hope to … Continue reading
There is a story in today’s New York Times about the Web 3.0, otherwise known as the W3C Semantic Web. The idea behind the semantic web is to link content or data rather than to link syntactic strings. This is … Continue reading
I was just at Fordham talking about assertion, knowledge, and lotteries, and Bryan Frances and I were talking about a particular case that it might be interesting to get others’ reactions to. I won’t tell you who took which position … Continue reading
This is just to let you all know that Stirling is hosting a conference on Social Epistemology next year, August 31st-September 2nd. The speakers include: Jon Kvanvig, Peter Lipton, Alvin Goldman, Elizabeth Fricker, Miranda Fricker, Scott Sturgeon, Ernest Sosa, Sandy … Continue reading
A detachment rule for an operator tells you conditions under which the operator can be removed from that which it governs. So, to use a straightforward example, the detachment rule for the necessity operator is just the inference rule that … Continue reading