The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking invites submissions the 2012 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 at http://ailact.mcmaster.ca/. … Continue reading
Perceptual dogmatism is the view that a perceptual seeming that P prima facie justifies P. Classical Bayesianism (CB), as I am using the term, is the idea that justification is accurately modelled by classical probability theory, which includes Bayes’ Theorem. … Continue reading
Fans of pragmatic encroachment need a way to resist the arguments of Weatherson and Nagel and Bach, arguments that show that in many of the motivating cases, an explanation in terms of pragmatic encroachment into belief itself can replace pragmatic … Continue reading