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Knowledge Denials and Belief
As I noted, we’re back from our vacation, but I want to quickly post a worry about Subject Sensitive Invariantism before I crash.
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The Long Road Trip and Mobile Blogging
We just got back from our Florida/Midwest trip, and for the first time I really used my phone extensively for blog posts. I kind of love it. I managed to write quite a bit on this phone. I may actually have a draft of a paper now. I’m kind of amazed at how quick and [...]
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Intuitions About Truth vs. Intuitions About Appropriateness: Part Two
I’ve been thinking more about the possible reply that Stanley/Hawthorne types (hereafter SSIers) might offer in response to an objection to SSI that I presented. Here is the original objection, and here is the possible reply that an SSIer might offer.
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Live Twittering at Philosophy Conferences
Carrie Jenkins has a very good post about live twittering at philosophy conferences.
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Intuitions About Truth vs. Intuitions About Appropriateness
In the last post, I presented an objection to one of the main motivations for Subject Sensitive Invariantism (here). There is an obvious difference between the Guard Dog and Contractor cases on the one hand and Stanley’s cases on the other.
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Subject Sensitive Invariantism About Dogs and Contractors
Consider the following two cases Guard Dog Case Bob’s mom is worried about burglars. She tells him she needs a dog (but not that it’s to scare away burglars). Bob goes out and gets her a tea cup poodle. She laughs at him and says, “You don’t understand. I’m worried about burglars. That’s not a [...]
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Where I Was Going with All That Linguistic Inappropriateness
So let’s talk about where I was headed with those last three posts on linguistic appropriateness. We had four cases of assertion. I’ll give a quick summary of each with links to the original post.
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Linguistic Appropriateness: Another Case
Confession time. I don’t have a good grasp as to what linguistic appropriateness is. But in so far as I do, I’m starting to get interested in cases where it seems intuitive that the person has done something linguistically inappropriate. In the long run, I’m interested in how the cases might inform some debates in [...]
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Knowledge and Linguistic Appropriateness: Part Two
In this previous post, I briefly outlined how epistemologists sometimes take linguistic appropriateness into account. Let’s grant the judgements about appropriateness in George’s case from that post. In this post, let’s consider some more cases.
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