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I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099
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…
…my esteemed colleague on his latest international honor, this time from France.
So asks a Boalt student with too much time on his hands. With students like these, who needs enemies? (And what the heck are the "most cited" journals? The results are sufficiently odd that one wonders.)
If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…