A team of computer scientists from Rutgers University recently revealed a range of nasty things a hacker can do with some simple, difficult to detect, malware. A hacker could text your phone and drain your battery, turn on your microphone and eavesdrop on important conversations, or even turn on your GPS receiver and figure out… Continue Reading
Funny, but I still favor the laptop policy I introduced a few semesters back. Also, (Spoiler Alert) I wish I could have seen the laptop shatter. The video doesn’t catch it.… Continue Reading
I now have rooms and times officially booked for our remaining three Young Philosophers visits. Here is all of the information regarding our three remaining speaker visits. Dennis Whitcomb Western Washington University (Ph.D., 2007, Rutgers University) “Grounding Precludes Omniscience” (Research Talk) February 25, 6PM Fenton 105 “Two Branches of Wisdom” (Intro Talk) February 26 @… Continue Reading
Part of Williamson’s case against the possibility of analyzing knowledge involves rejecting three candidate arguments for the thesis that belief is conceptually prior to knowledge. These all come up in the introduction of Knowledge and Its Limits.1 Here is my best attempt to extract these arguments. The labels are my own. The Argument from Non-reflexive… Continue Reading
Young Philosophers was just approved to distribute to the Roku Player on the Blip.TV channel. So if you have a Roku Player, you can watch Young Philosophers on your big TV from the comfort of your couch. I don’t see any way to browse to the show. The easiest way to find it… Continue Reading
I just posted Chris Tucker’s Intro Talk called “What My Dog Can Tell Us About The Problem of Evil” over at the Young Philosophers site. Enjoy!… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago, I discovered that you can post to WordPress from Google Docs. But if you follow those instructions, titles won’t import into WordPress. However, I just found However, if you follow this set of instructions – titles from Google Docs will import into WordPress. Now I have a useful tool on my… Continue Reading
Aren’t there analyses of knowledge that do less violence to our intuitions than JTB, but also have about as good a claim to analyze knowledge in terms of a natural property as JTB (e.g. JTB that isn’t based on false grounds)? If that’s right, then it seems that Weatherson’s defense of JTB in “What Good… Continue Reading
I just posted Chris Tucker’s research talk – “What Open-Minded People Should Endorse Dogmatism” This was a great talk. You should check it out.… Continue Reading
Williamson thinks that the fact that we have yet to come up with a suitable analysis of knowledge post-Gettier, among other things, should push us to accept that there is no analysis of knowledge. He thinks that we should treat knowledge as an unanalyzable primitive. Here’s something I find puzzling, he argues that we should… Continue Reading