Brian Williams: What’s the role of intuition in your job? Tim Cook: It’s critical. It’s extremely critical. The most important things in life, whether they’re personal or professional, are decided on intuition. I think you can have a lot of … 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
“But where does this default entitlement come from?” It needn’t “come from” anywhere: entitlement isn’t a fluid whose creation needs explanation. Probably the best view is that we simply have an attitude of regarding some beliefs as entitled under some … 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
Here is my impression: it is very popular to allow certain kinds of experiences to provide (prima facie propositional) justification for certain propositions. Which propositions might an experience justify? The most straightforward thing to say is that certain experiences provide … Continue reading
At some point in the future you’ll be able to read my new argument for the possibility of contingent a priori knowledge in the pages of Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. For now you can read it here. … Continue reading
How is a priori knowledge possible? The dominant recent response on the rationalist (pro-a priori) side to Benacerraf-style worries has been the conceptualist one, featuring prominent thinkers like Peacocke, Boghossian, Jackson, perhaps Hale and C. Wright, and a host of … Continue reading
Many philosophers have thought that the following proposition wasa priori: If I don’t have any positive evidence that I am being deceived by any Cartesian evil demons, I am not being deceived by any such demon. But how could this … Continue reading