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If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…
To a large degree, Kuhn’s Structure is an attempt to deliver on the descriptive task of epistemology as Reichenbach conceived…
I concur to a certain extent. I also scored very low on the writing section. Back then, GRE was required…
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…
Fascinating! Thank you, I will look at this. I had studied metaphysics under Timothy Williamson before I started my PhD…
This is exactly the approach I take in Knowledge and its Place in Nature, Oxford University Press, 2002
PGR Advisory Board member John Martin Fischer has called to my attention two public conferences that his department at the University of California at Riverside is hosting this coming academic year to celebrate forthcoming books by UCR philosophers Howard Wettstein and Gary Watson. More details, for those who might be interested in these events, are here.
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