Green is in the good case so he knows all sorts of stuff about how things are and ought to be. Green knows that he ought to keep his promises when there’s no overriding reason not to, knows that he … Continue reading
Walter Dean and Hidenori Kurokawa have a new paper in Synthese, ‘From the Knowability Paradox to the existence of proofs’: Abstract: The Knowability Paradox purports to show that the controversial but not patently absurd hypothesis that all truths are knowable … Continue reading
Update 5/13: I’m back from a trip to discover that Plato won the pre-modern contest, edging out Aristotle by just 2 votes. However, the final round has begun to determine the most important philosopher of all time, and as of … Continue reading
May 15-17th, conference webpage here. Looks really interesting! … Continue reading
Frege believed that the unrestricted comprehension axiom is true, and it is sad, since the axiom leads to paradox. If you are inclined toward coherentism, the rationality of Frege’s belief causes a problem, since it is logically inconsistent. I’ve been … Continue reading