It’s been awhile since my last blog entry. We hit the end of the semester crunch, and then I went out of town. I’m now back doing work, and posts will resume. Two cool things happened in that break. I had two papers accepted for publication! The first is a paper on the problem of… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Here’s a fun case. I was walking around the Science Museum in Buffalo with Simon yesterday, and I came across this odd passage in the dinosaur exhibit. Here is a picture of it, but I’ll type out the passage so you don’t have to click away. Triceratops, the Fighter Paleontologists believe that Triceratops used its… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading