SLU announces a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore the subject of intellectual humility. The project will focus on a variety of philosophical and theological issues relevant to the topic of intellectual humility, including: virtue epistemology; regulative … Continue reading
The Sanders Prize in Epistemology, funded by The Marc Sanders Foundation and administered by Tamar Szabó Gendler, is an new bi-annual essay competition open to scholars who are within fifteen (15) years of receiving a Ph.D. or students who are … Continue reading
Reading Eleonore’s massive work on the problem of evil, and in the middle of her defense of the claim that there is something special about knowledge of persons. She calls it “Franciscan knowledge”. She begins her characterization by making remarks … Continue reading
Interview with Stephen available here: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/understanding-understanding/, in connection with the Templeton grant on Understanding. … Continue reading
Just saw this today: Logical Pluralism. Why here? What does it have to do with epistemology? Well, I wonder how many think as I here. This is totally enigmatic, but I think of logic as a branch of epistemology, and … Continue reading
This is for an Oxford Handbook on Reasons and Normativity, and is due to Daniel Star sometime in April, so I thought I’d link to the draft here, in case any want to help me by providing comments! You can … Continue reading
The 8th Cologne Summer School in Philosophy will take place in Cologne, September 23 – 27, 2013. Special guest this year will be Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh). Pritchard suggests a new understanding of the sceptical problem and offers a … Continue reading
A draft of my new book is available here: https://bearspace.baylor.edu/Jonathan_Kvanvig/www/tex/rationalityandreflection.pdf Responses, suggestions, etc., always welcome and can be sent to my email jonathan_kvanvig at baylor.edu. … Continue reading
Been thinking again about fallibilism, and especially its history. So a question: can we find sources prior to the 19th century of the view that a proper account of knowledge is fallibilistic? By the latter half of the 19th century … Continue reading
Oxford University 12 & 13 June 2013 The New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology project at Oxford University invites the submission of papers related to the application of the safety condition for knowledge to any question in the philosophy … Continue reading