Monthly Archives: December 2007

Young Philosophers Lecture Series!!!!

Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a lecture series for young philosophers to get some experience and exposure? Wouldn’t it be cool if this lecture series was podcast in video and audio format so that the entire philosophical community could watch it? Wouldn’t it be cool if the young philosophers gave one talk on [...]

Ways-Millianism: A Puzzle (Part One)

I want to discuss a puzzle for a view called Ways-Millianism. I’ll do it in two parts. In this post I’m going to briefly present a Frege Puzzle for Millianism and the Ways-Millianism response. The puzzle I want to discuss relies on understanding how the Ways-Millian responds to Frege Puzzles.
If you’re already familiar [...]

A Note About This Blog’s Title

Some people have asked why I named the blog “Wide Scope” - Here’s the reason. “Wide Scope” is a term that often gets used in philosophy and logic. Also, while I will mostly post stuff directly related to philosophy, I will occasionally post some stuff that’s simply funny. “Wide Scope” seemed to be a fitting [...]

An Evidential Reponse to Newcomb’s Puzzle

The Puzzle
A nearly omniscient being is going to put money in two boxes on Wednesday. No one will touch the boxes after that. Suppose you KNOW that the nearly omniscient being is 99% accurate in predicting whether the person on Thursday will open both boxes or just one box. The omniscient being will make a [...]

Kant Attack Ad

So…this is kind of funny. My department chair just pointed it out to me.

On Being Justified That You Will Be Justified

UPDATE: I posted this same thing over at Prosblogion - there’s been some discussion there.
We don’t have a complete science of the brain yet, but look at what recent neuro-science has shown. Don’t the recent successes of neuro-science give us good reason to believe that there will one day be adequate evidence for the proposition [...]

Welcome to My Homepage and My Blog

About Me
I am  an Assistant Professor in philosophy at  SUNY-Fredonia. Check our philosophy department out here. I started here in August 2007.
I  received my Ph.D. from University of Rochester in May 2006. The title of my dissertation was Foundational Moral Knowledge. In addition to epistemology and ethics, I have research interests in metaphysics, philosophy of language, [...]