August 27-29, 2007 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands http://www.knowledgebeliefnormativity.org Conference Theme After decades of discussion about the proper analysis of knowledge, epistemologists have started working on questions concerning the value of what they so eagerly have analyzed: knowledge. The rubric … Continue reading
via Jon’s post below and Gillian Russell at TAR, Greg Restall summarizes and links to Branden Fitelson’s very interesting talk (pdf of Branden’s slides) at the Banff Mathematical Methods in Philosophy workshop. I’ve only seen the slides, but I have … Continue reading
Via Gillian at Thoughts Arguments and Rants, I just learned that “the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is widening its “Inductive Logic and Decision Theory” area to “Formal Epistemology”, with Branden Fitelson and Al Hajek joining Brian Skryms and Jim Joyce … Continue reading
Suppose equal weighters are right: when two epistemic peers share all and only the same evidence regarding some claim and disagree (i.e., one thinks the claim is true on the basis of the evidence and the other thinks it false … Continue reading
About a year ago, Jon blogged here about Allan Gibbard’s Sly Pete example, inspiring quite a discussion in the comments. I’ve finally finished a draft of the paper that, when I gave it as a talk, got Jon thinking about … Continue reading
Not too long ago, I received a copy of the new 5th edition of A.P. Martinich’s (ed.) Philosophy of Language anthology, which I understand is fairly widely used. (And if you Google “philosophy of language” martinich spring and/or “philosophy of … Continue reading
How to fold a t-shirt. … Continue reading
Thomas Grundmann and Hilary Kornblith are organizing a summer school in philosophy at the University of Cologne (Germany) on the above topic. The dates are August 6-10, 2007. The number of participants is relatively small, and those interested may apply … Continue reading
Announcing: An International Workshop on the Question “Why Formal Epistemology?” April 28th-29th University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma Philosophy Department is hosting a two day Epistemology Workshop at the University of Oklahoma, Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29. … Continue reading