Epistemic Bootstrapping - Philosopher’s Digest
My first review for Philosopher’s Digest was posted today. Here’s the link.
It’s on Jonathan Vogel’s paper “Epistemic Bootstrapping” in The Journal of Philosophy (September 2008)
Filed under: epistemology, philosophy by Andrew Cullison
We read through that article in JVC’s seminar this semester. Have you seen Weisberg’s manuscript of “Bootstrapping in General”? It’s on the Rutgers Epistemology Conference website: http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/EVENTS/EPISTEMOLOGY/
He argues that NRC does not really block all objectionable cases of bootstrappish reasoning, and that it blocks some legitimate forms of bootstrappish reasoning.
More importantly, he gives a diagnosis of bootstrapping that seems basically right to me.
Hey Justin,
I haven’t read it yet, but it’s next on my list of things to read.