Just finished a directed readings section on contextualism and invariantism, and I realized once more that the taxonomies are confusing here and that students need a lot of help sorting out the epistemological significance of the debates, regardless of how … Continue reading
There is an interesting series of articles (in English) in Spiegel Online about How German Intelligence helped justify the Iraq invasion. The interview with David Kay is short and to the point. … Continue reading
Call for Papers: -A special issue of Synthese commemorating Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. Edited by: -Horacio Arló-Costa (Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University) -Gregory Wheeler (Computer Science, New University of Lisbon) Submission deadline: -July 30, 2008 Henry Kyburg’s innovative ideas about probability … Continue reading
In volume 5, no. 1 (July 2007) of the SIPTA newsletter there appears the first of a two-part interview Fabio Cozman conducted with Isaac Levi. The piece is extremely informative about Levi’s program and is written for a general readership. … Continue reading
Just finished a draft of it and anyone interested can find the paper here. It’s a defense of the view that even if there are pointless truths, the value of truth and the related values of knowledge and understanding are … Continue reading
Just saw today that Tony Blair will be on the faculty at Yale. Too bad it wasn’t earlier, when attending to Keith’s contextualism (or the pragmatic encroachers more generally, such as John and Jason) could have done some good. Think … Continue reading
A Workshop on Non-classical Logics: from Foundations to Applications is to be held at The Ennio De Giorgi Center for Mathematical Research, Pisa, Italy, from April 24-26, 2008. There are 15 stipends available for students. The application deadline is April … Continue reading
Went to a department store. She showed me the dressing room. “If you need anything, I’m Jill.” Wow. Never met anyone with a conditional identity. “What’s your name if I don’t need anything?” “Eugene.”
Titled Wanted: Someone Who Knows Nothing About the Job. Fish says about Benson, whose highest degree is a B.A., giving Colorado the distinction of having the least educated President in modern history, no crash course will yield the tacit knowledge … Continue reading