I’m giving a talk at Northwestern today called “Descriptivism Meets Gettier” as part of their Epistemology Brown Bag Lecture Series. I’ll post a draft of the paper later (I’ll likely want to make changes after the talk), but here’s the basic idea. I think Descriptivism (about semantic content) is committed to certain speakers having knowledge in ...
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 Entailment Knowledge ...
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! ...
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. ...
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 regard knowledge ...
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I just posted Joshua Spencer’s research talk titled “A New Counterexample to Principles of Alternative Possibilities.” Check it out. Aside: This is by far the fastest, I’ve been able to get these talks up (thanks Flip HD). ...
I just posted Joshua Spencer’s intro level talk Time Travel and Freewill. Check it out. Spencer kicked off our 2009-2010 Young Philosophers Lecture Series. I’ll post Spencer’s research talk “A New Counterexample to Principles of Alternative Possibilities” by sometime tomorrow. Also note that we have four excellent speakers ...
I want to talk about the multiple universe response to the Fine-Tuning Argument. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the fine-tuning argument here is a one-page handout that I give my students when we talk about it. It doesn’t contain all of the details of the argument, but it should give you the ...
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