Synopsis: I wonder why, in light of some solid cases of lottery knowledge, people still doubt lottery knowledge. I also suggest an X-phi research project that thought would boom after 2004 but didn’t. General motivational prolegomena: So I made it … Continue reading
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
The second issue of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out (electronically anyway), and available here. Among other things, it features a symposium on Ernie Sosa’s work featuring articles by John Greco, Richard Fumerton, and Michael Williams, to which … Continue reading
This past semester, I tried an experiment: I Beamer-ed up my entire epistemology course, so I thought I’d make the slides public. (For LaTeX-uninitiated, Beamer is a LaTeX class for creating slide presentations.) Some of the material on the slides … Continue reading
I’m delighted to say that the first issue of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out! Check it out here. … Continue reading
I’ve got a good draft of a new paper up on my website, “Knowledge in Denial: A Defense of Nonskeptical Pure Invariantism.” I’d welcome any comments! Also just posted is a paper forthcoming in the exciting new journal International Journal … Continue reading
By no means would I suggest that the epistemological implications of this story are its most noteworthy features. But it does have noteworthy epistemological implications. Weirdly, the US Air Force is involved with the private security firm HBGary to deploy … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking a bit about McDowell’s epistemological argument for the disjunctive conception of experience. One reaction I’ve come across in conversation is basically that McDowell derives an implausible claim about the nature of experience from implausible claims about perceptual … Continue reading
I recently finished this [pdf link] (quite rough) draft of a paper on insensitivity accounts in epistemology. Comments welcome (either left as comments to this post or e-mailed to me at my-first-name dot my-last-name at the-4-letter-name-for-my-university dot edu). … Continue reading
I’m delighted to announce that Diego Machuca and myself are going to be launching a new journal devoted exclusively to the discussion of skepticism. It will be called International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, and it will be published by … Continue reading