By no means would I suggest that the epistemological implications of this story are its most noteworthy features. But it does have noteworthy epistemological implications. Weirdly, the US Air Force is involved with the private security firm HBGary to deploy … Continue reading
I’ve decided to coin a new phrase. Just heard a talk that convinced me we need it. The background is that a standard objection to many accounts of justification is that they imply that small children and animals have no … Continue reading
First Pittsburgh -Tilburg workshop Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science 29-30 September 2011 Website here More information, including a call for papers, below the fold. … Continue reading
1. I remember discussing the opening of Peter Lasersohn’s “Pragmatic Halos” (Language 75 [1999]: 522-551) with a linguist friend of mine a few years back (email records show this was in March of ’05). Lasersohn gives this example: Suppose, for … Continue reading
Epistemic Norms & Values Symposium The University of Tennessee – Knoxville March 25th-26th, 2011 The Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee (with generous support from the Humanities Initiative within the UTK Office of Research) is pleased to announce … Continue reading
The 2011 Shapiro Conference in Philosophy The Epistemology of Inference Brown University, March 12-13, 2011 The Department of Philosophy at Brown University is pleased to announce the 2011 Shapiro Conference in Philosophy, which will take place on Saturday and Sunday, … Continue reading
The view that one can never truthfully ascribe to a subject knowledge of a fact if their belief in that fact is insensitive has often been ascribed to me. Often, but wrongly. Since graduate school (long, long ago (in a … Continue reading