2010 Episteme Conference Photos
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The photos taken at the recent Episteme conference in Edinburgh are now posted on the conference webpage, here. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2010
MEW4: Travel and Lodging information now available
Travel and lodging information regarding the fourth annual meeting of the Midwest Epistemology Workshop (MEW4) is now available. MEW4 will be held on the campus of Purdue University Friday and Saturday Oct. 8-9, 2010; the keynote speaker is Jason Stanley, … Continue reading
Still More Insensitivity from DeRose
I recently finished this [pdf link] (quite rough) draft of a paper on insensitivity accounts in epistemology. Comments welcome (either left as comments to this post or e-mailed to me at my-first-name dot my-last-name at the-4-letter-name-for-my-university dot edu). … Continue reading
More x-phi evidence on stakes
In a recent thread (here), there was extensive discussion of Wesley Buckwalter’s experimental work on knowledge ascriptions. Buckwalter’s work seems to support an emerging consensus in experimental philosophy, according to which the salience of error does affect people’s intuitions about … Continue reading
New Journal Devoted to Skepticism
I’m delighted to announce that Diego Machuca and myself are going to be launching a new journal devoted exclusively to the discussion of skepticism. It will be called International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, and it will be published by … Continue reading
1. OSE3; 2. Insensitivity is Back, Baby!; 3. The Amazing Prophetic Powers of the Young Bill Lycan
1. Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Vol. 3 (2010) is now out: OUP-USA, OUP-UK. I’ve only read a couple of the papers it contains, but those were very good, and it looks from the volume’s table of contents (follow either of … Continue reading
Recent Ethics of Belief Offerings
Over at the SEP, Andrew Chignell has a nice entry on the Ethics of Belief that went up about a month ago. It is very well-organized, very crisp, clearly written, and with an extensive bibliography. It made me want to … Continue reading
New Experiment on Bank Cases
In a recent post, Keith DeRose offers some nice criticisms of existing experimental studies of bank case intuitions, along with some very helpful suggestions about how future studies should be conducted. Wesley Buckwalter has now completed a new study that … Continue reading
PhilTex: a technology blog for philosophers
Charlie Tanksley has started PhilTeX, a group technology blog for philosophers. Although new, the blog already has some excellent posts on LaTeX editors, options for reading pdfs on portable devices, a cool way to simplify installing packages on Macs, advice … Continue reading
4th Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop
The 4th Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop will be held Friday and Saturday, October 8-9, on the campus of Purdue University. The keynote speaker is Jason Stanley. Details of the workshop, including the tentative schedule and links to papers (when they … Continue reading