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  epistemology

June 12th, 2009

Gettier in Real Life

I like to make note of real life Gettier cases. Yesterday I was in one.

June 9th, 2009

Foundational Semantics

Here’s an argument that the semantic content of some term is directly referential. It’s designed to mirror the regress argument […]

May 12th, 2009

A Road to Skepticism

I’ve been on a David Lewis kick recently. Here’s more. David Lewis considers two different epistemic objections to Lewisian Modal […]

May 5th, 2009

Evidence of Unreliability

I like evidentialism. (EJ) S is justified in believing P iff P is best supported by S’s total evidence. I […]

May 4th, 2009

Epistemic Bootstrapping – Philosopher’s Digest

My first review for Philosopher’s Digest was posted today. Here’s the link. It’s on Jonathan Vogel’s paper “Epistemic Bootstrapping” in […]

April 16th, 2009

Linguistic Data that Knowledge Doesn’t Entail Truth

I think knowledge entails truth, but I like to keep an eye out for uses of ‘knows’ and its cognates […]

March 18th, 2009

I’m Going to be an Editor!

Continuum Press contacted me a few months ago and asked if I would edit a Companion to Epistemology. I accepted, […]

December 2nd, 2008

Experimental Philosophy

Here are two quotes from the first few pages in the new reader Experimental Philosophy edited by Joshua Knobe and […]

November 22nd, 2008

Safety in Fake Barn Country

I’ve been writing a lot about safety accounts of knowledge recently (here and here). It’s time for more. My concern […]

November 18th, 2008

Safety Accounts of Knowledge and Gettier

Last week, I laid out some problems for the naive safety account of knowledge that Pritchard presents early in his […]