Back when I wrote “Contextualism: An Explanation and Defense” (in Greco, Sosa, ed., THE BLACKWELL GUIDE TO EPISTEMOLOGY, 1999), I included a section called, “A Brief History of Contextualism.” And it was indeed brief! I’m now writing a section of … Continue reading
This New York Times article on Creepy-Crawly Robotics highlights the ascendancy of “biologically inspired” design ideas in robotics. Some sense of the impact of this idea can be seen in the following sequence of 4 videos about a challenging mobility … Continue reading
Ken Taylor, at Philosophy Talk, explains some of his disappointment with epistemology here. John Greco was on the talk show this week, which is what prompted the post, but the post itself caught my attention for a couple of reasons. … Continue reading
The 3rd Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (Progic 2007) will be held at the University of Kent, September 5-7, 2007. The focus of this year’s workshop is probabilistic logics and probabilistic networks. Selected papers will appear in a special … Continue reading
Epistemologists typically cite William James for formulating the epistemic goal properly. James said there are two parts to the goal: getting to the truth and avoiding error. It is true that James says this, but it is not clear to … Continue reading
Suppose you have a LaTeX2e article and you want to send it to a fancy philosophy journal but you discover that the editors frown on LaTeX submissions. Nevermind that for a journal to prefer Word to LaTeX is like a … Continue reading
Episteme will hold its fourth annual conference at Rutgers University on June 29-30, 2007. The focus of this year’s meeting is testimony. Confirmed speakers include: Jonathan Adler (Brooklyn College and the Graduate School, CUNY), Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), … Continue reading
Below the fold is information about epistemology at the Central meeting. Not quite as much as at the Pacific, but still a good amount. … Continue reading
Looks again like there is lots of really good stuff at the Pacific meeting. Details below the fold. If you notice something I’ve missed, please note it in the comments. Hope to see many CD-ers there (names of CD-ers appear … Continue reading
On May 2-5, 2007, the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam is holding a conference called Reasoning about Probabilities and Probabilistic Reasoning, which is part 6 of the Foundations of the Formal Sciences conference series. … Continue reading