Thinking about Knowledge. Epistemology 50 Years after Gettier’s paper It is a pleasure to announce a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Edmund Gettier’s famous article “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”. The conference will take place at … Continue reading
Next year (20-21 June), the Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group will be hosting an international conference on ‘The Gettier Problem at 50′. The speakers include: Mark Kaplan (Indiana University) Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto) Erik Olsson (Lund Universitat) Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh) … Continue reading
As you know by now, we’ve moved. The need for the move is the heightened attack levels on WordPress, and we are implementing changes to minimize risks. One such change involves the way in which your posts and comments are … Continue reading
Certain Doubts has moved, with a new web address and using cloud hosting and away from Baylor servers. The look is the same and you should be able to login with your same id and password. Let me know if … Continue reading
From June 28 to 30, 2012, at the Universities of Bologna & Modena – official website here, and preliminary schedule here. … Continue reading
September 28-29, 2012, at Indiana University, Bloomington. Website for the conference is here. … Continue reading
CD was 8 on June 9th, which I forgot to mention since it is my wife’s birthday, and well you know some things trump one’s attention…
We would like to invite you to an online experiment on knowledge. In the experiment, you will be asked to judge about several scenarios whether the agent in the scenario knows a certain fact. You can enter the experiment via … Continue reading
If that title buys me a few seconds of your attention, let me unpack those two questions just enough to show you exactly what I mean to ask here. What I mean to ask is: Is it universally understood that … Continue reading
Been reading this morning about epistemic risk and the value of new information in Don Fallis’s work. See, e.g., “Attitudes Toward Epistemic Risk and the Value of Experiments,” available online here. I’m just beginning to get into this literature, so … Continue reading