I’m off to Chicago today for the Central APA. Assuming I have access to the internet, I’ll post about some of the philosophy going on there. I’m commenting on a paper by Matthew Pianalto called “Moral Realism and Ways of Life.” He discusses an issue that Walter Sinnott-Armstrong raises for moral realism that’s fun to… Continue Reading
I’m curious how many people out there discuss the Analysis of Knowledge literature when they teach Epistemology in their general Introduction to Philosophy courses. I suspect there are a lot of people who don’t. I thought it would be worth saying why I like to include Gettier discussions when I start epistemology in my introduction… Continue Reading
The call for papers for the 5th Rochester Graduate Epistemology Conference is now available. This conference is GREAT! One thing that everyone should know is that most of the professors attend all of the presentations. From what I gather this is not the norm at many other graduate student conferences. Also, the keynote speaker is… Continue Reading
Is Concrete Modal Realism true?I think the answer here is clearly, yes! I used to be a linguistic ersatz kind of guy, but thanks to Google images I stand corrected. This is clearly a snap-shot of that possible world where not only is Santa clearly concrete, but I think that’s David Lewis’ counterpart. (ok…back to… Continue Reading
A friend of mine introduced me to a fun time waster. I’m told it’s called Ask Google Images. Here’s what you do. 1. Go to Google Image Search2. Type in a Question3. The first image in the results is your answer. (Don’t ask me how images can be answers!) I thought – this is going… Continue Reading
Informal Logic just switched over to open access. Consequently.org has a post about it here. [HT: Mark and Andrei]I knew it had to be possible for a closed access journal to migrate over to an online open access format, and I even suggested that this would be a way for the discipline to get more… Continue Reading