Conference on the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality
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June 6-7, 2006 St Andrews (Scotland) The Arché Research project in the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality Conference (contact: rlh@arts.gla.ac.uk)
Monthly Archives: October 2005
A Little Late Noticing This One…
Conference on Understanding the Dynamics of Knowledge, November 17-19, 2005 Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (Italy) … Continue reading
New Weblog on Epistemic Value
This is just to let CD-ers know that the Knowledge, Mind and Value project at the University of Stirling, which has hosted a number of epistemology-related events in recent years, is now also hosting a weblog specifically devoted to Epistemic … Continue reading
Characterizing a Fogbank: What Is Postmodernism, and Why Do I Take Such a Dim View of it?
I just sent the older of my two sons off to college. Some other parents in that same position have asked me about postmodernism, which they have heard is running rampant through our institutions of higher learning. They want to … Continue reading
Can Anything Justify Anything?
I’m off to a philosophy of religion conference at Wheaton tomorrow. Keith and I are in the same session; maybe we’ll try to figure out what a contextualist view of hell would look like… In the meantime, I thought I’d … Continue reading
New Developments at Episteme
I just got a note from Jennifer Lackey about some changes that have occurred with this journal. First, Alvin Goldman is now the editor, and they have added four new associate editors, two of them being Fred Schmitt and Jennifer. … Continue reading
Neta on Warrant Transmission
Here’s a draft of a new paper by Ram on warrant transmission, engaging a debate between Crispin Wright and Jim Pryor/Martin Davies. It concerns Moore’s proof of an external world and the question of what epistemic value the proof could … Continue reading
Neta and Pryor on the Basing Relation
In the “Hot Topics” post, a new topic of discussion has begun, and it may be useful to call attention to it in a separate post so that it doesn’t get lost in the other one. It is about the … Continue reading
Hot New Topics in Epistemology
Last year CDers had a discussion about what the most important developments in epistemology over the last quarter century have been. I thought it would be interesting if CDers had a similar discussion that looked more toward the future than … Continue reading
Soames and Moore
I just saw Michael Kremer’s review of Soames’ two-volume work on the history of analytic philosophy, noticing especially the strong role he assigns to G.E. Moore in showing how pre-philosophical thinking is relevant to philosophical theorizing (“the recognition that philosophical … Continue reading