The second issue of The Reasoner is up. This volume includes: David Lagnado, “Causal models in cognition”. Barry Hartley Slater, “Probability and logic”. Amit Pundik, “R v Adams and the conclusiveness of DNA evidence”. Hock Lai Ho, “Epistemic basis of … Continue reading
What to do when your beliefs are contradictory – don’t panic! Some philosophers talk as if there is no rational advice one can give to someone – oneself for example – who has just uncovered a contradiction in her beliefs. … Continue reading
Featured speaker: Tim Williamson. The conference will be held on January 11th and 12th, 2008. The call for papers and other information can be found at the conference website here. … Continue reading
this? (Thanks to Adam Morton, who e-mailed me the link.) Does that mean people in that area, or people in all of China, or perhaps that all of us, don’t know any more when we’re seeing a zebra at a … Continue reading
Just got the program from Mylan for the conference this year. It is unfortunate for me that I had to withdraw from the program–the program looks so good. The program can be downloaded here. There ought to be a prize … Continue reading
I wonder if anyone has insight into why Quine never ran any of his epistemology off of degrees of belief (unless, of course, I’m just unaware of something in the Quinean corpus, which there is some chance of, since I … Continue reading
The blog for the conference can be found here. This first week includes two papers in epistemology and also includes CD-ers Juan Comesana, John Greco, Ernest Sosa, Ram Neta, and Duncan Pritchard. Looks fantastic! … Continue reading
Once upon a time D. Reidel/North Holland/Kluwer/Springer held a sizable chunk of the formal philosophy book market, and Elsevier a fair portion of what remained. Together they pushed the price of books in this niche to dizzying heights. College Publications … Continue reading
Two politicians disagree about policy. In the end, some resolution is necessary, since unending paralysis is intolerable (for whatever reason). So they compromise. Both think the result is less than ideal. To understand the result, we need to know not … Continue reading