Since there are wicked rumors out there that Chicago is not a place to visit in February, below the fold I have collected the various epistemology-relevant goings-on at the 2012 APA Central Division meeting, which is taking place Feb 15-18 … Continue reading
Readers may be interested in Mark Lance’s discussion, “Glymour Against Philosophy,” at the New APPS blog here. A taste: [Glymour's] conclusion is so vulgarly self-serving, so professionally irresponsible, and so breath-takingly ignorant (for example of what areas of philosophy are … Continue reading
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ESSLLI 2012 STUDENT SESSION The 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Opole, Poland, August 6-17, 2012 Deadline for submissions: March 20, 2012 http://loriweb.org/ESSLLI2012StuS/ ABOUT: The Student Session of the 24th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and … Continue reading
UPDATE 12/15 Thanks so much you guys!! I left some close friends off that list for crying out loud! Like I said, sometimes the most obvious things are the most likely to get overlooked. I get grad school apps today, … Continue reading
This is just to announce the 2012 Episteme conference that will be hosted by the Delft University of Technology and the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology (www.ethicsandtechnology.eu). The theme of the conference is ‘Epistemological Problems of Privacy and Secrecy’, and … Continue reading
Here. The motivation for the paper is my attraction to value-driven epistemology, which I’ve endorsed in the abstract, but never tried to use to actually do some epistemology. Here I try, at least. And the draft is, let us say, … Continue reading
The current issue of is a special issue devoted to the Problem of the Criterion, with papers by Ernest Sosa, Mike DePaul, Carrie Ishikawa Jenkins and Anne Meylan, Jan-Willem Wieland, Ted Poston and Tim Pickavance: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rppa20/current#settingsPage … Continue reading
A reminder of the conference that Edinburgh’s Epistemology Research Cluster is hosting in May 2012. The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition is sponsored by the Scots Philosophical Association and the Mind Association. Invited speakers include Ted Sider, Carolyn Price, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, Stephen Grimm, and Kristoffer Ahlstrom. There’s also a call for … Continue reading
The second issue of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out (electronically anyway), and available here. Among other things, it features a symposium on Ernie Sosa’s work featuring articles by John Greco, Richard Fumerton, and Michael Williams, to which … Continue reading