December 2, 2008 – 2:47 pm
Here are two quotes from the first few pages in the new reader Experimental Philosophy edited by Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols.
Of course, the most salient difference is just the fact that experimental philosophers conduct experiments and conceptual analysts do not. Thus, the conceptual analyst might write, “In this case, one would surely say…,” while [...]
November 22, 2008 – 12:20 am
I’ve been writing a lot about safety accounts of knowledge recently (here and here). It’s time for more.
My concern is that DuncanPritchard’s Safety Account of Knowledge doesn’t easily avoid Kripke’s Fake Barn Country counterexample to Nozick’s Sensitivity Principle. Pritchard is aware that Jonathan Kvanvig has already raised this worry, but Pritchard’s response to Kvanvig seems [...]
November 18, 2008 – 4:09 pm
Last week, I laid out some problems for the naive safety account of knowledge that Pritchard presents early in his book Epistemic Luck.
I wanted to get them out so that we could make sure that, whatever revisions Pritchard made to the safety account, we had a safety view that also avoided those worries.
Pritchard’s revised version [...]
November 5, 2008 – 2:55 pm
In the epistemology class I’m teaching, we’ve moved on from Bergmann’s book to Pritchard’s book Epistemic Luck.
Here’s a principle that Pritchard ultimately is going to defend.
Safety Principle
If S knows P, then S believes P in most nearby worlds where P is true
This is not to be confused with the Nozickean/Dretskean tracking/sensitivity type principles (e.g., where [...]
September 29, 2008 – 11:30 pm
Chapters 3 and 4 are sort of slow-going. The good stuff really comes in at chapter 5. I’m going to quickly lay out brief summaries of chapters 3 and 4. But I’ll warn you now - this will be quick and I won’t have anything substantive to say in this post in the way of [...]
September 16, 2008 – 12:42 pm
In the previous post on Justification Without Awareness - I laid out Bergmann’s dilemma for the internalist. The next two chapters explore ways to avoid the dilemma. In this chapter, Bergmann critically discusses two philosophers’ views that grab the weak awareness horn and two philosophers’ views that grab the strong awareness horn.
Richard Fumerton
Bergmann says that [...]
September 9, 2008 – 11:14 pm
I’m teaching special topics course in epistemology this year. We’re going through Michael Bergmann’s new book Justification Without Awareness. I thought it would be fun to post quick summaries of the chapters here, and critically discuss them along the way. Here’s a quick summary of chapter one.
Chapter One
In this chapter, Bergmann develops and defends a [...]
September 5, 2008 – 11:27 pm
We’re going to start going through Michael Bergmann’s book Justification Without Awareness in my special topics seminar. I had a lot of fun with our Knowledge of God reading group over at Prosblogion, and I thought it would be good to do something similar for each chapter in Bergmann’s book. So starting next week I’ll [...]
Net-neutrality debates and the issue regarding re-instating a metered internet are starting to get more MSM attention. Here’s a recent New York Times article that came out yesterday.
And here’s a related, interesting column that came out a year ago on pbs.org. It’s not about net-neutrality per se, but it is interestingly related. It argues [...]
Introducing Philosophy Journal Mashups!
Any philosophy journal with an RSS feed can be run through a mashup program. Mashups combine multiple RSS feeds and automatically screen those feeds for specific content. Once you’ve screened the journal articles for the kind of content you want, you can turn the results into a widget to post on a [...]