The “social epistemology” group in the Northwestern Philosophy Department (Sandy Goldberg, Jennifer Lackey, and Fabrizio Cariani), together with two non-philosophy colleagues at Northwestern (Steven Epstein, Sociology; Uri Wilensky, Computer Science, Learning Sciences, and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems), have just … Continue reading
At VU University Amsterdam. More information below the fold. … Continue reading
Been re-reading this very fine paper recently (in order to be a responsible dissertation director!), and noticed something puzzling. Schaffer aims to discredit the reductive view that knowledge-wh constructions are reducible to knowledge that constructions. The basic idea of the … Continue reading
Joseph Shieber’s quite favorable Notre Dame review of my edited volume Evidentialism and Its Discontents (just out in Kindle edition) was just released, and there’s only one thing I want to quibble with (I appreciate his review very much. I … Continue reading
A final reminder of this event, which will take place at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on Friday 6/21 and Saturday 6/22. The conference is an exercise in “applied virtue epistemology” that is bringing together philosophers, psychologists, education theorists, … Continue reading
Summer School on Epistemic Utility Theory EUT 2013, Bristol August 17-18, 2013 EUT is organized by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol and coordinated by Richard Pettigrew, Jason Konek, and Ben Levinstein. Speakers: Jim Joyce Katie Steele … Continue reading
The World Science Festival’s signature event is an annual celebration and exploration of science, which aims to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for … Continue reading