I am pleased to announce that the program for the fifth annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop (MEW) has been finalized. More details of the program, including papers and local arrangements, will be posted here as they come in. (Thanks in advance … Continue reading
A series of recent experimental studies by James Beebe, Wesley Buckwalter and others have shown that people’s moral judgments can actually impact their intuitions about knowledge. In a striking new paper, Buckwalter reports three experiments showing that this effect can … Continue reading
I wanted to alert readers of this blog to upcoming experimental philosophy talks in New York City. Many of the talks this semester will be of interest to epistemologists, including our first two talks, Jonathan Schaffer’s, “Knowledge, Stakes, and Mistakes”, … Continue reading
I’ve now started posting the programme for the Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group for 2011 here. I’ll update this as I get more information about the talks. If you’re in the Edinburgh area and you fancy coming to any one of … Continue reading
Call for Papers Special Issue of *Philosophical Explorations* on ”Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action” Guest Editors: Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven University of Technology) Submission Deadline: September 15, 2011 Invited Contributors: Fred Adams … Continue reading
Truly ridiculous to (have to) ask, but I wonder if someone with access to the Journal of Philosophy can tell me whether this quote from Hawthorne and Stanley is on page 584 or 585 (or if neither, but I’m pretty … Continue reading
This semester I’m teaching a seminar on Concessive Knowledge Attributions, so I pulled together a bunch of papers on it for my syllabus page. I’ve mostly been writing on the Problem of Evil lately, and much of what I have … Continue reading
Recently seen on a course evaluation for an intro M&E course: “I have a passion for philosophy I know philosophy, and I can tell u that this prof just doesnt get it. Who studies arguments!?” Who, indeed. (Feel free to … Continue reading
We are in the process of organizing our eighth annual formal epistemology workshop. The purpose of these workshops is to bring together faculty and graduate students with an interest in the use of formal methods in epistemology (broadly construed) in … Continue reading
A call for papers for Progic 2011 can be found here. The Progic conference series is intended to promote interactions between probability and logic. The fifth installment of the series will be held at Columbia University in New York on September … Continue reading