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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
Professor Henderson finds that: "CEOs with legal expertise are effective at managing litigation risk by, in part, setting more risk-averse firm policies. Second, these actions enhance value only when firms operate in an environment with high litigation risk or high compliance requirements. Otherwise, these actions could actually hurt the firm."
The full article is here. A summary in the Harvard Business Review is here.
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…