I just wanted to draw your attention to the conference on “Linguistics and Epistemology” I’m organising. The event will take place next year at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland, UK), and the dates of the conference are May 12/13 2007. … Continue reading
I often read that conditionals present deep philosophical problems. We’ve got to know what the real meaning of conditionals are, abstracts/forewords/grant proposals intone, and how to understand strict, material, indicative, subjunctive, counterfactual, probabilistic, suppositional readings of English sentences having the … Continue reading
My colleague, Karsten Harries, e-mailed me & others the YouTube URL where you can see the Python skit involving Greek vs. German philosophers. See it here. (Does anybody know?: Has this been available on the web for a long time? … Continue reading
Joe Salerno is editing a special edition of Synthese, and I’m posting the call for papers for the issue for him. Here ’tis: “This is a call for papers to be submitted by May 1, 2007 for inclusion in a … Continue reading
Suppose you are deciding whether to do A or B, which are mutually exclusive. Suppose also that you believe the following: 1. If p, then I should do A. 2. If ~p, then I should do B. But, being a … Continue reading
It is Monday and Johnson is anxious. He’s competing with several other managers for a promotion at Acme, Inc. They are so evenly matched in qualifications, Johnson learns, that the candidate who scores highest on a ruthlessness test everyone took … Continue reading
I just received a gracious email from Yu Guo, a reader of Certain Doubts who teaches at Communication University of China, and works on epistemology, philosophy of language, and Kant. Since we ordinarily think of analytic epistemology as being at … Continue reading
At the very helpful suggestion of Greg Wheeler, I’ve added a new category for posts. If you’ve posted anything that would be appropriately categorized in this way, you may go back and edit the post by checking this category. Doing … Continue reading
John and Gillian have written a piece on Jason Stanley’s Knowledge and Practical Interests. The paper can be found here. It looks really interesting, so check it out! … Continue reading
I will probably be teaching some MBA students some epistemology. Just six or so lectures. I would like to get some opinions regarding appropriate topics for such lectures. I am inclined to at least start out with going over some … Continue reading