I’m working on Duncan Pritchard’s book, writing a substantial notice of it for PPR. One of the central elements in Duncan’s thinking is the idea he gets from Wittgenstein that there are bedrock propositions that fall outside standard epistemological assessment … Continue reading
October 20-21, 2007, with a deadline for the call for papers of August 5. The keynote speaker is Jim Pryor, with Earl Conee commenting. More information can be found here. … Continue reading
Scheduled for January 12-13, 2007. Keynote speaker is Jason Stanley, and the conference website, with call for papers, can be found here. … Continue reading
On 14/15 September 2006, there will be a workshop about implicit definitions and a priori knowledge in Berlin. Among the speakers are Tim Williamsson, Jason Stanley, Paul Horwich, Crispin Wright, and Dave Chalmers. The website for the conference can be … Continue reading
How is a priori knowledge possible? The dominant recent response on the rationalist (pro-a priori) side to Benacerraf-style worries has been the conceptualist one, featuring prominent thinkers like Peacocke, Boghossian, Jackson, perhaps Hale and C. Wright, and a host of … Continue reading
I failed to note our second anniversary, which was June 9th. Thanks to all who have contributed over the past two years. The conversations here have been as good as any I’ve ever had in philosophy!
I’ll start with some unoriginal thoughts on originality here, because I think they lead to an interesting conclusion. Originality is an important intellectual virtue. In some, it looks more like a vice, because some people do not control their interest … Continue reading
Michael Hand just called me to ask a question, and thought I’d post about it. He seems to recall seeing a passing remark in some David Lewis paper against antirealist attempts to substitute some notion of warrant in place of … Continue reading
Externalists typically hold a strong interpretation of the truth connection. They hold that there must be a logical connection between justification and truth, that somehow or in some way, whatever factors make for justification must also make for objective likelihood … Continue reading
Total pageviews for last month: 53,378, another new record. Top-read posts for the month were: 1 Jim Hawthorne on the logic of nonmonotonic conditionals 1,674 2 Norms of Assertion and Constitutive Rules 1,669 3 Paradox vs. Surprise 1,641 4 The … Continue reading