I just looked at the Philosophy Job Market Wiki, wondering about current interview practices. I divided departments into three groups: those doing eastern division APA interviews, those doing phone interviews, and those just bringing top candidates to campus. The numbers … Continue reading
Topics include: Categories and Structures, by Steve Awodey (June 8-12); Decisions and Games, by Teddy Seidenfeld (June 15-19); Logic and Formal Verification, by Jeremy Avigad (June 22-26). Tuition and housing is free for a class of 20 or so undergraduate … Continue reading
I am happy to announce the publication of the special edition of Philosophical Studies (Volume 142: 1) containing the final versions of the papers presented at the first Midwestern Epistemology Workshop (MEW), held at Northwestern in November 2007. The papers … Continue reading
======================================================================== FORMAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF RELIGION June 10-12 2009 @ KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium) Co-organized by the Formal Epistemology Project, KU Leuven and the Center for Philosophy and Religion, University of Glasgow Conference website: http://formalphilosophy.org/fmer ======================================================================== The organizers … Continue reading
I suppose the upside of the financial meltdown and dismal job season is that loads of us will have plenty of time to kill at the Eastern so we can actually go to the talks and talk shop. Below the … Continue reading
Ralph and Keith are tough acts to follow, but here goes … In her paper “Norms of Assertion” (Nous 41:4, 2007), Jennifer Lackey argues against the knowledge account of assertion (KA). She says that some “selfless assertions” are counterexamples to … Continue reading
Back when I was interviewing for jobs (so this would have been during the last few days of the year 1989 in Atlanta), my writing sample was “Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions” (which later appeared in PPR), and a quite famous* … Continue reading
There are three kinds of justification: (i) propositional justification, (ii) doxastic justification of mental events of judgment, and (iii) doxastic justification of enduring belief states. This distinction is relevant to the debates about the “closure” of justification under logical consequence. … Continue reading
Al Casullo and I are delighted to announce the venues for the next four Midwest Epistemology Workshops. They are as follows: MEW3 (Fall 2009): St. Louis University (local organizer: John Greco). MEW4 (Fall 2010): Purdue University (local organizer: Matthias Steup). … Continue reading