… skeptical arguments. A new paper of mine, “Skeptical Appeal: The Source-Content Bias” (forthcoming in Cognitive Science), uncovers a subtle mechanism that triggers knowledge-denial and contributes to the appeal of classic skeptical arguments. The mechanism is an interaction between two factors. … Continue reading
Held in Columbia, MO, June 18-July 15, including an attractive financial package for participants (4K for a research project, 3K for housing, $750 for travel to and from the seminar, and $51/day for food). Seminar led by Kvanvig, Howard-Snyder, and … Continue reading
Housed at Baylor University’s Philosophy Department, and supported by a grant from Templeton. The three-year project is co-directed by Jon Kvanvig, Dan Howard-Snyder, and Trent Dougherty. These post-docs are 3-year positions, and the deadline for application is February 1. I’ll … Continue reading
[Crossposted at Choice & Inference] I’m currently working away on an entry for the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy (eds. Justin Sytsma and Wesley Buckwalter) on Formal Epistemology. The current plan is for the entry to explore the following two points: … Continue reading
I’m going to be co-editing (with Diego Machuca) a new volume series for Brill on scepticism, entitled Brill Studies on Skepticism. This series is affiliated with the journal International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, which I also co-edit with Diego. We will publish … Continue reading
The Philosophy Departments at Northwestern and Notre Dame are proud to announce the 5th annual NU/ND Graduate Epistemology Conference, which will take place on the Northwestern campus in Evanston, IL, on Friday and Saturday, April 25-26, 2014. The keynote speaker … Continue reading
The Philosophy Department at Northwestern is proud to announce our 3rd pre-Central APA mini-conference, which will be held on February 26 — the Wednesday prior to the first full day of the 2014 meeting of the Central APA (taking place … Continue reading
Is Mike Titelbaum, University of Wisconsin-Madison, for his paper “Rationality’s Fixed Point.” Further information available here. Congratulations to Mike and to runners up Sarah Moss and John Bengson! … Continue reading
The University of Edinburgh is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 4th Annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference. Our keynote speakers this year will be Professor Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern/Edinburgh) and Professor Susanna Siegel (Harvard). The conference will take … Continue reading
Available here. There will be minor editorial changes before publication, I expect, since OUP’s copy editors usually have good recommendations. But the content is pretty much fixed. … Continue reading