2ND COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE IN EPISTEMOLOGY: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN AUGUST 19-20, 2010 We tend to think of liberal democracy as providing the most ethically defensible way to set up a modern society. A separate yet … Continue reading
Andy Cullison and I were talking about mentalism last night and we decided there are at least three potential problems for “internalism-as-mentalism”, i.e. for the view that You are an epistemic internalist iff you think the facts about which of … Continue reading
Here. Given the disproportionate representation of females in the profession, these kinds of studies are certainly worth paying attention to. UPDATE: There is an interesting discussion here about this study. The comments by Jennifer Nagel are especially worth noting, containing … Continue reading
Peter knows way too much speech act theory! Very interesting talk on general speech act and the category of things into which testimony falls. Peter holds that testimony falls into a general category of thing which includes non-testimony as source, … Continue reading
Ted is defending conservatism against the charge that it is abhorrent. Gricean mechanisms come up again, responding to Christensen’s claim that you can’t defend a belief by pointing out that you believe it. Ted claims that such a response could … Continue reading
Robert Audi introduced a distinction between testifying that p and giving assurance that p to address a counterexample to his view that knowledge can’t be acquired from false testimony. So, if Joey comes to learn that there will be presents … Continue reading
At the pre-Central celebration of Jennifer’s book, listening to an interesting problem now being discussed by Lizzie Fricker. Here ’tis: when you don’t fully trust a source, you tend to encode your source in the belief. Instead, of believing what … Continue reading
Readers of CD might be interested to know about a new paper by Wesley Buckwalter, in which he discusses apparent gender differences in epistemic intuition. The paper, which can be found here, has recently been discussed on the Experimental Philosophy Blog and … Continue reading
I’m delighted to announce that we can finally open registrations for the 2010 Episteme conference which we’re hosting here in Edinburgh this June (2nd-4th). The theme of the conference is ‘Cognitive Ecology’ (you can find a more detailed description of the … Continue reading
The deadline for submissions to the 3rd Formal Epistemology Festival is the end of this month, Feb. 28. This year’s festivities are in Toronto, May 11-13, and the topics are Learning from Experience and Defeasible Reasoning. The invited speakers are … Continue reading