I was re-reading BonJour’s wonderful classic “Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge” and was struck by the following comments, which come right before BonJour presents his cases against externalism: Clairvoyance, the alleged psychic power of perceiving or intuiting the existence and … Continue reading
Anyone know why some trackbacks appear on the blog, but the vast majority never appear? I can find discussion of posts from here in quite a few places, but most never show up… UPDATE: I thought about deleting this post, … Continue reading
This new item requires some explanation. It’s the sum of the following: permalink views x 10 home views x 2 archive views x 4 category views x 6 feed views (full content only) x 1 comments x 20 pingbacks x … Continue reading
What do you all think of this claim; I call it the Knowledge Norm for Belief: If one believes that P, then one is committed to the view that one knows that P. This is the thesis of a paper … Continue reading
Over at TAR, Jeremy has a quite interesting argument about the factivity of knowledge. Actually having an argument is interesting, since the defenses of factivity that I’ve seen amount to nothing more than explaining away counterexamples one at a time. … Continue reading
I’ve put up one more layout for your viewing pleasure. In the Themes box in the sidebar, there’s a new one called “Dark Maple”. It’s not quite what I want yet, but it’s close enough, and it’s time to return … Continue reading
I think I have the bugs worked out on a new feature here. The default layout has the posts in the middle column, but if you go down to the bottom of the right sidebar, there’s a Themes box, with … Continue reading
I ran across this intriguing site, but haven’t figured it out yet: Blogshares. As best I can tell, it appears to be a game where blogs are treated like stocks: bought and sold, with share value rising and falling. (The … Continue reading
If you’re a contributor, you can now bypass the delay in comments appearing. If you’re logged in, then your comment will appear immediately, bypassing the anti-spam routine I’ve been using that requires approval of all comments by me before appearing. … Continue reading
As you can see, the new system is up and running, with most things working again. I’ve added a new item in the left column that ranks popularity of posts. I’m not sure it will add any interest to the … Continue reading