The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking invites submissions the 2010 AILACT Essay Prize. Value: $300 U.S. The prize-winning paper will be published in Informal Logic, contingent upon meeting the conditions specified in the prize’s notice, available here. Papers … Continue reading
The MS for _Evidentialism and Its Discontents_ is now complete. I’m really pleased with the result and very grateful to all the contributors. I’ve posted a TOC here. Here’s a link in case that doesn’t work. http://tinyurl.com/22qout5 … Continue reading
In his very interesting “Knowledge and Certainty” (Phil Issues, 2008), Jason says the following things to which we might want to refer later. A. “A person’s belief satisfies the property expressed by a subjective use of “certain” relative to a … Continue reading
Fellow CD-er John Turri has moved to the University of Waterloo from his position at Huron University College. Congratulations both to John and to Waterloo for a fine addition to their department! … Continue reading
In his Epistemology, Fumerton argues that propositional justification is more central to (applied) epistemology than is doxastic justification. Here is one of his arguments: There is another reason that epistemologists interested in applied epistemology are probably well advised to focus … Continue reading
I’m delighted to announce that Allan Hazlett, currently at Fordham, will be joining us later this year to take up our new Lectureship in Epistemology. That’s a fantastic hire for us I think, and it will be great to have Allan as … Continue reading
After defining Fallibilism as the possibility of knowing p on the basis of evidence E where E is consistent with ~p he says this: “For example, a fallibilist maintains that I may know that I have hands, on the basis … Continue reading
I still find it hard to believe that anyone would want to deny this, but it happens. 🙂 The Knowledge Entails Evidence Argument (KEE) 1. Knowing entails believing as one ought. 2. Believing as one ought entails believing what fits … Continue reading
I’ll be organizing somewhere between 1-3 conferences in 2011-2, and at least one of them will involve a call for abstracts. Since I’ve never organized a conference before, does anyone have any useful advice? I doubt I’m the only one … Continue reading
University students make up the majority of the samples for subject-based research articles in experimental psychology, mainly because they are cheap and convenient, but the reliance on student samples raises the question of whether results based on those samples are … Continue reading