As part of my move from Missouri to Baylor, I’m moving cyberspace stuff as well, and that will include Certain Doubts. I’m posting this before the move, since I’ll freeze the site at its present location and I want something … Continue reading
Brian Leiter has a post over at the Leiter Reports with the same title as this one, except I added a question mark — because I’m not so sure about the matter. Leiter’s post consists largely of comments sent to … Continue reading
John just sent me a really neat paper entitled “Probable Probabilities.” The abstract should entice reading the full manuscript: In concrete applications of probability, statistical investigation gives us knowledge of some probabilities, but we generally want to know many others … Continue reading
Jennifer Lackey and Alvin Goldman are organizing a conference for Episteme on testimony. It will be at Rutgers, June 29-30, 2007. I’ll put full information from the call for papers below the fold. … Continue reading
According to today’s NY Times, in the movie “Men In Black”, when the character played by Will Smith is still in shock after his first encounter with aliens, the character played by Tommy Lee Jones says to him: “1500 years … Continue reading
Just FYI, there are five SEP articles that came out this past week that are of interest to epistemologists. There’s one on belief, one on evidence, one on Bayesian epistemology, one on social epistemology, and one on moral skepticism. … Continue reading
Stephen has a new piece on the knowability paradox, entitled “A Dissolution of the Knowability Paradox.” It can be found here. Comments and discussion on the paper are, as always, welcome and encouraged. … Continue reading
Is all virtue-based ethics and epistemology response-dependentist? It seems to me that yes. Consider the following: Some people say that value comes from affection and sentiment. Suppose one of them, call him Michael S. claims that the central “producer” of … Continue reading
INTEGRATING VIRTUE AND TRUTH Virtue epistemologists seem to be divided in two camps, those who come from a truth-centered tradition(s), mostly the reliabilist one, and those who come from the ethics side. The Truth-camp, lead by Sosa and Greco, combines … Continue reading
THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF KEITH LEHRER PUCRS, Graduate Program in Philosophy, Porto Alegre, Brazil, June 27-29, 2007 Keynote speaker: Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona, Emeritus; University of Miami) Speakers: Fred Dretske (Stanford University, Emeritus; Duke University) Carl Ginet (Cornell University, Emeritus) … Continue reading