A quick reminder for those of you in the Edinburgh area that next week we’re hosting Robert Audi (who is visiting our department as a Scots Philosophical Club Centennial Fellow), who will be giving the 2010 Nature of Knowledge lecture. … Continue reading
In the heat of the Chicago summer, we look forward to the 2010-11 version of the Northwestern Epistemology Brownbag series. These are organized by Matthew Mullins; epistemologists who find themselves in the Chicagoland area should feel free to come on … Continue reading
said by Ellis in No Country for Old Men, and brought to mind when reading Fish’s discussion here of the recommendations by the Texas Public Policy Foundation apparently being implemented at Texas A&M and being considered elsewhere in the state, … Continue reading
Not deep or important epistemology, but really cute nonetheless. … Continue reading
I’m organising an informal epistemology workshop to coincide with Robert Audi’s visit to the Edinburgh philosophy department next month as the 2010 Scots Philosophical Club Centennial Fellow and to deliver the 2010 Nature of Knowledge lecture. The workshop will take place on … Continue reading
Aberdeen’s NIP is conducting a short seminar in epistemology July 13-15, 2010. It covers three topics: Modal Epistemology, Fallibilism vs. Infallibilism, and Conservatism vs. Liberalism in the epistemology of perception. The website is here, and details of the three topics … Continue reading
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for the new epistemology post at Edinburgh is now quite close–Monday June 21st. Accordingly, if you’re going to apply then you need to get your skates on! As I said before, please do feel … Continue reading
Here is the paper I gave at the Oberlin Philosophy Colloquium last month. In it I discuss recent experimental work relevant to (or at least often enough taken to be relevant to) epistemic contextualism. I believe the papers for that … Continue reading
That’s the content of a sign being carried by someone involved in one of the primaries being covered by the news organizations today. They don’t comment on the grammar, and though I realize that it overreaches to conclude something about … Continue reading
Note, added 6/11/10: The title of this post is no longer a good guide to its contents–or at least to what’s of most value in its contents. The value is in the comments, where several people who use text editing … Continue reading