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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
The very sad news has just come in that Keith Aoki, Professor of Law at U.C. Davis School of Law, passed away this morning. Professor Aoki previously taught at the University of Oregon School of Law and was a prolific scholar in areas relating to critical theory. He was also an avid cartoonist. He was 55.
Update: Jamie Boyle at Duke is heading up efforts to build a trust fund for Professor Aoki's nine year old daughters.
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…