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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
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…
Duncan Pritchard, one of the UK’s leading young epistemologists who is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, has accepted a Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, which will certainly help Edinburgh, already a strong department, be more competitive with the top English departments like Sheffield, Birkbeck, and King’s College, London.
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