The end of chapter 5 in F/M is devoted to responding to Weatherson’s challenge to F/M’s pragmatism, a challenge that attempts to explain the pragmatism in terms of a pragmatism about belief rather than one about justification. I like the … Continue reading
The Philosophy Department at Northwestern is pleased to announce that on Sunday, March 11, we will hold a one-day workshop on the recent epistemological work of Jason Stanley. Jason himself will lead a morning discussion of his recent book KNOW … Continue reading
May 20-22, 2012. The program can be found here. … Continue reading
The question is meant this way: do your ontology and category theory, and then ask what true propositions are there that say that some such things are epistemically justified. Two answers have some plausibility: beliefs can be epistemically justified, and … Continue reading
Known since Socrates, but still interesting to study: Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It. Maybe we should do studies here using cognition-enhancing drugs on the low-end achievers, and see if calibration increases. Fox News might wish to fund the … Continue reading
F/M argue for the Equivalence Thesis, the claim that you are justified in believing something iff you have knowledge-level justification for it. I’ve argued against this thesis here, so I was especially interested in how they argue for it in … Continue reading
Another entry from my grad seminar’s close reading of this deep and important book, but fair warning to the reader: you need to be motivated by the intricacies of the argument here, since this is going to be a complicated … Continue reading
The Epistemology Research Group at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce a two-day conference, sponsored by the Scots Philosophical Association, the Mind Association, the Leverhulme Trust, and the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences (PPLS) at the University of Edinburgh. “The … Continue reading
John Hawthorne’s new Templeton-funded project: New Insights Visitor Notice. New Insights Distinguished Visitor Notice. Interesting opportunities for those of us who work both in epistemology and philosophy of religion! … Continue reading
We’re doing Fantl/McGrath in my grad seminar, and it is really great stuff–I’ve had a very high opinion of the book since it came out, but it is interesting to see how blown away the students have been by it. … Continue reading