The UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory, in partnership with the Medical Imaging Informatics Group at the University of California, Los Angeles, have constructed a new blog to discuss causality, its principles, recent results, applications, and related philosophical controversies. … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking about the connection between restrictivism and the equal weight view about rational disagreement. There are different versions of the equal weight view, but the rough idea is that the existence of disagreement has a tendency to undermine … Continue reading
In defending (what I call) Restrictivism, Roger White, in the piece I talked about earlier here, characterizes the view something along the following lines: on the assumption that one takes some attitude toward a proposition, there is only one attitude … Continue reading
Fourth Annual Formal Epistemology Workshops, FEW 2007 The organizers are in the process of organizing the fourth annual formal epistemology workshop. The purpose of these workshops will be to bring together individuals, both faculty and graduate students, using mathematical methods … Continue reading
Here are three principles of varying plausibility: 1. There can’t be any justified inconsistencies: propositions which are justified for a person and which logically imply a contradiction. 2. There can’t be any justified contradictories: no instances of p being justified … Continue reading