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Monthly Archives: May 2012

APA’s this coming academic year
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Posted on May 20, 2012 by Kvanvig Jon
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This may be the best year ever for APA meeting locations. Love NY and Boston and DC, but Atlanta in December is pretty cool,and certainly better than any weather option save Miami (hint hint). And Central in New Orleans with … Continue reading →

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Experiment Month Two

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Mark Phelan
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Just a quick note to let you know about the second annual Experiment Month initiative. The deadline for submissions is June 15th. The basic idea of the initiative is simple. If you are interested in running an experiment to address a philosophical … Continue reading →

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Why do we recognize induction as a category?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Mark Nelson
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Dear Colleagues, Here’s a basic (and possibly wrong-headed) question. Probably, if I were a better student of logic and/or epistemology, I would see the answer, but at the moment I don’t. Why do we even recognize a category of inductive … Continue reading →

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Purdue Conference on the Epistemology of Moral and Religious Belief

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Michael Bergmann
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On September 6-8, 2012, Purdue University will host an interdisciplinary conference entitled “Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief: Disagreement and Evolution”. The conference will focus on three main challenges to religious and moral beliefs: Widespread interpersonal disagreement among intellectual peers … Continue reading →

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Defeating Defeaters

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Chris Tucker
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I gain evidence that this used car salesman is unreliable.  He tells me he’s the most honest person I’ll ever know.  It would be ridiculous, on that basis, to think “Well, gee, I guess he’s reliable after all.”  We need … Continue reading →

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Philosopher’s Carnival #141

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Gregory Wheeler
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Here. … Continue reading →

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On the women-friendliness of epistemology: a challenge

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Sandy Goldberg
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In the past few months, I have heard several epistemologists make remarks about epistemology’s relative lack of friendliness to women (in comparison with philosophy’s other subfields).  Perhaps the most often-cited evidence was the ratio of men to women in epistemology, … Continue reading →

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Latest Issue of IJSS

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Duncan
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The new issue of International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out. Thanks to everyone who has helped us establish this new journal. I’m pleased to announce that since it’s doing so well, we will shortly be moving … Continue reading →

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Field on Attitudinalism

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Kvanvig Jon
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“But where does this default entitlement come from?” It needn’t “come from” anywhere: entitlement isn’t a fluid whose creation needs explanation. Probably the best view is that we simply have an attitude of regarding some beliefs as entitled under some … Continue reading →

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