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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
Do you know of anyone who’s taken the approach you describe, in philosophy or the sciences? It seems interesting.
I suspect evolutionary and behavioural perspectives are left seriously underappreciated in this approach to epistemology. Reichenbach’s claim that epistemology must…
Just want to follow this conversation. Thanks
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…
The list is here. It was based, it appears, on a survey of attorneys charged with recruitment. It isn’t quite clear what the base-line is for ratings, such that a school is "underrated." Among the other oddities, it is clear from the comments that Vault permitted those surveyed to rate the law school from which they graduated.
Bill Henderson (Indiana) has more detailed remarks on the Vault study.
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…