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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
…once citation rates are normalized across disciplines. Marx is #1.
ADDENDUM: And Chicago is the only law school in the world to have two faculty in the "top 100" for philosophy! (You have to enter "philosophy" in the area space to see the results. Nussbaum clocks in at 26th, yours truly at 76th [how I ended up slightly ahead of Saul Kripke does, shall we say, raise some questions about the metric!])
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…