Allan Hazlett over at Fake Barn Country has put together some interesting statistics about how many epistemology articles (and how many articles from other lemming areas) each of many leading journals has published in recent years: link. (His post is … Continue reading
I have serious interests in the conditional fallacy, and just noticed that Dan Bonevac, Josh Dever, and CD’s David Sosa have a draft of a joint-authored paper on the logical structure of the fallacy here. It’s not epistemology, but the … Continue reading
One brand of skepticism claims that we cannot have knowledge because there are no true statements. In Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (Oxford, 2004), a very clear and stimulating defense of moral objectivism, Russ Shafer-Landau argues that this form … Continue reading
In his Stanford entry on defeasible reasoning, Koons says the following: In particular, a logical theory of defeasible consequence will have epistemological consequences. It is presumably true that an ideally rational thinker will have a set of beliefs that are … Continue reading
One more new Stanford entry: Rob Koon’s extensive and impressive piece on Defeasible Reasoning. … Continue reading
Another new Stanford entry in epistemology: Tom Senor’s Epistemological Problems of Memory. … Continue reading
There’s a conference August 25-27, 2005 in Amsterdam on Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Understanding. The organizers don’t explicitly mention the epistemological connection, but that’s not surprising, given the infancy of exploration of the concept of understanding in epistemology. Besides, Amsterdam! … Continue reading
In case you haven’t seen it yet, George Pappas’s entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia is now online, on Internalist and Externalist Conceptions of Epistemic Justification. … Continue reading
Suppose that coherentists can find a solution to the problem of justified inconsistent beliefs. I’ve argued that they can: the argument requires distinguishing between two kinds of necessary falsehoods and between ordinary and epistemic justification. There’s still somewhat of a … Continue reading
Last Call for Application VISU/SWC 2005 Extended Deadline: February 15, 2005 VIENNA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC WORLD CONCEPTIONS 2005 Chance and Necessity Vienna, July 18-29, 2005 organized by the University of Vienna and the Institute Vienna Circle A two-week high-level … Continue reading