I want to know, but I lack the resources for figuring it out. Here’s the data: roughly 90 billion people who have been born on earth have died. Roughly 7 billion people (all those who are alive today) have not. … Continue reading
In a short article entitled “Was I Fooled?”, with which he opens his book What Is the Name of This Book? The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles (Prentice Hall, 1978), Raymond Smullyan reports on the problem which he … Continue reading
This is pretty inchoate, but I was just recently struck by the possibility of an interesting puzzle here. One the one hand, we clearly need to include as evidence for clearly justified occurrent beliefs propositions stored in memory. On the … Continue reading
Ninth Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop The Ninth Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW 2012) will be held in Munich, May 29 – June 1, 2012. This year’s meeting is sponsored by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. The meeting will take … Continue reading
A celebration of the work of Isaac Levi at University of Toronto, October 22, 2011. (Hat tip to Jeff Helzner at Choice and Inference.) … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of David Marrow and Chris Sula’s online jobs site Phylo, David Chalmers and David Bourget have recently launched Philjobs, an extension of their very successful PhilPapers project: The PhilPapers team is pleased to announce a new … Continue reading
A summary of what the Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group is currently up to and has planned for the near future: Regular Seminars/Groups Epistemology Research Seminar Epistemology Reading Group Scepticism Reading Group Ancient Epistemology Reading Group For these seminars/groups, all are welcome and … Continue reading