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July 30th, 2009

Kevin Timpe – Truthmaking and Sourcehood

I just posted a new video over at Young Philosophers. It’s Kevin Timpe’s research talk – “Truthmaking and Sourcehood” (link […]

July 19th, 2009

Knowledge Denials and Belief

As I noted, we’re back from our vacation, but I want to quickly post a worry about Subject Sensitive Invariantism […]

July 16th, 2009

Intuitions About Truth vs. Intuitions About Appropriateness: Part Two

I’ve been thinking more about the possible reply that Stanley/Hawthorne types (hereafter SSIers) might offer in response to an objection […]

July 14th, 2009

Intuitions About Truth vs. Intuitions About Appropriateness

In the last post, I presented an objection to one of the main motivations for Subject Sensitive Invariantism (here). There […]

July 14th, 2009

Subject Sensitive Invariantism About Dogs and Contractors

Consider the following two cases Guard Dog Case Bob’s mom is worried about burglars. She tells him she needs a […]

July 13th, 2009

Where I Was Going with All That Linguistic Inappropriateness

So let’s talk about where I was headed with those last three posts on linguistic appropriateness. We had four cases […]

July 12th, 2009

Linguistic Appropriateness: Another Case

Confession time. I don’t have a good grasp as to what linguistic appropriateness is. But in so far as I […]

July 11th, 2009

Knowledge and Linguistic Appropriateness: Part Two

In this previous post, I briefly outlined how epistemologists sometimes take linguistic appropriateness into account. Let’s grant the judgements about […]

July 11th, 2009

Knowledge and Linguistic Appropriateness

In this post, I want to illustrate a methodological assumption that is sometimes made in epistemology.The idea is that facts […]

June 12th, 2009

The Concept of Intentional Action

Joshua Knobe has run a series of experiments that suggest that our intuitions about whether or not an action was […]