If that title buys me a few seconds of your attention, let me unpack those two questions just enough to show you exactly what I mean to ask here. What I mean to ask is: Is it universally understood that … Continue reading
In a short article entitled “Was I Fooled?”, with which he opens his book What Is the Name of This Book? The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles (Prentice Hall, 1978), Raymond Smullyan reports on the problem which he … Continue reading
Have intuitions, will travel — but not very far this time without your help. Recent work by Peter Klein on benign falsehoods leads to the recognition of conflicting intuitions about testimonial knowledge in a particularly bewildering case for all parties … 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
This is ostensibly a review of Peg Tittle’s What If…, Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Pearson Longman, 2005) with a narrow focus: post-Gettier epistemology. (In these days of “post-” anything, I had better clarify: For me, “post-Gettier epistemology” means the … Continue reading
Following a couple of brief notes on what I call the “canonical form” of a paradox and on how the Paradox of Inference – the problem derived from Lewis Carroll’s dialogue between Achilles and the Tortoise – has been received … Continue reading
Dear Jon, Thought you might be able to help me with the following problem. There I was last Friday, sitting in the jury box, trying to be the best servant of common sense that I can be. The star witness … Continue reading
There´s an exciting discussion going on at Certain Doubts about what Peter Klein has called “useful falsehoods”. (See “Klein on Useful Falsehoods”, “Klein on Useful Falsehoods II” and “The Significance of Useful Falsehoods” elsewhere in the blog. I´ll be confining … Continue reading