I just got a draft of the program for the Pacific Meeting, and will move it to the front closer to the event. But, having just posted on epistemology events at the Eastern Meeting, I was shocked to notice the … Continue reading
RELEVANT INFO FOR THE UPCOMING APA MEETING: (CD-er’s names in bold) Wednesday Afternoon, December 28 I-D. Symposium: A Priori Knowledge and Justification 2:00-5:00 p.m. Chair: Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) Speakers: George Bealer (Yale University) Michael Devitt (City University of … Continue reading
Eric Neufeld and Scott Goodwin’s article on the Lottery Paradox and the Paradox of the Preface appearing in Computational Intelligence 14(3), 1998, is an overlooked gem. The paper offers a rebuttal to Pollock’s distinction between the lottery from the preface … Continue reading
My takeaway from the discussion of the Buridan’s Ass Paradox is that the issue turns on the relationship between reasons and contrastive reasons. Here’s one version of such a principle: Reason R is a reason to do A (or believe … Continue reading
Some have argued that the generality problem Feldman and Conee raise for reliabilism will plague every theory of justification. I don’t recall the precise nature of these arguments, but I wasn’t convinced. I’m worried, however, even though not convinced. Here’s … Continue reading
Below is the announcement: Special Volume of Social Epistemology on “Collective Knowledge and Collective Knowers” We invite submissions for a special issue of the journal Social Epistemology on collective knowledge. Submissions should address the question of whether and how a … Continue reading
One response to the paradox (the starving ass is caught between two equally attractive haybales, and starves from indecision, needing a reason to prefer one to the other in order to eat) is to allow for the possibility, and rationality, … Continue reading
Link here. The project, led by Jessica Brown, Duncan Pritchard, and Crispin Wright and running from January 2008 through December 2012 (their website has a typo regarding this date, I believe), has two basic components: one on basic knowledge and … Continue reading
At www.formalphilosophy.com. The title is Formal Philosophy, by Vincent F. Hendricks and John Symons. Here’s a short blurb about it: Interviews with: Johan van Benthem, Brian F. Chellas, Anne Fagot-Largeault, Melvin Fitting, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Haim Gaifman, Clark Nøren Glymour, Adolf … Continue reading
I don’t have any students that I’m the main advisor for on the market this year, so I haven’t really checked this out in any detail. But a very quick look at the JFP would seem to indicate the job … Continue reading