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 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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My paper “What Are Seemings?” was just accepted for publication at Ratio! Here’s a link to the paper. I still have to make the style changes and add acknowledgements, but nothing of substance will be changed. Here’s the abstract. What Are Seemings? Abstract We are all familiar with the phenomenon of a proposition seeming true. Many think that these ...
I’ve been watchinig the first season of the new Dr. Who. There’s an episode called “Aliens of London” that involves a pretty interesting Gettier case. Dr. Who Gettier Case Aliens are invading Earth. Part of the alien plot involves making people think there is an alien invasion in a way that is much different from the way ...