I just wrote the book and chapter summaries for my upcoming The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Vol. 1. (OUP put it into my contract that I should write these: I believe they’re for on-line access via Oxford … Continue reading
Who knew? From “Come Together”: He got feet down below his knees Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease … Continue reading
University of Oklahoma March 12th-14th 2009 Conference Website Keynote Speakers John Greco (St. Louis University) Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield) More info and a call for abstracts below the fold. … Continue reading
A working draft is now up here. Critica is devoting an issue to the publication of Sosa’s Locke Lectures from 2005, published as A Virtue Epistemology last year by OUP. It is a well-deserved honor, and I highly recommend the … Continue reading
I’ve just completed a draft, available here, for the Companion volume edited by Duncan Pritchard and Sven Bernecker. I’m early on finishing the draft, and so have plenty of time to revise if any readers have suggestions for improvement. … Continue reading
Just a quick “professional issues” post to call attention, for those who might have missed it, to this perceptive blog post from about a week ago by Brian Leiter. In it, Leiter warns those who might be going on the … Continue reading
Here’s an interesting piece about teaching quality and evaluation. The most interesting point from my own perspective is this: For math and science courses, students taking courses from professors with a higher “academic rank, teaching experience, and terminal degree status” … Continue reading
In a forthcoming paper in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Jonathan Weisberg shows that enthusiasts for conditionalization cannot accommodate a certain strong kind of holism. Very interestingly, Weisberg shows that this result does not just hold for … Continue reading
So, here’s what I take to be the canonical presentation of Ginet’s famous barn example, from Goldman’s “Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge,” (JP, 1976), pp. 772-3, with two slight modifications: 1) I’m not able to produce the various funny little marks … Continue reading
Leslie Marsh tells me that Issue 4.3 of Episteme — a themed issue on Testimony — will be freely available for download for 14 days only (July 7 – July 21). Those interested should see here. … Continue reading