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Indeed that remark resonates with our topic, but note that it comes from a very early and never published essay.…
In the context of this blog, I am somewhat surprised nobody has mentioned Nietzsche! “What then is truth? … a…
We haven’t discussed this in our department (lower ranked PGR but tend to get highly competitive/very large applicant pool) but…
If you were the head recruiter for a professional basketball team, would you require height and weight measurements for prospective…
I wonder if people are familiar with Fred Schauer’s essay on Kelsen and Fuller. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607099
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…
To a large degree, Kuhn’s Structure is an attempt to deliver on the descriptive task of epistemology as Reichenbach conceived…
…commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre. The University's official statement effectively acknowledges that the University removed it because of the Beijing-imposed laws that criminalize dissent.
This is the latest in a series of incidents that indicate Hong Kong is being crushed by the authoritarians in Beijing.
(Thanks to Chris Fraser for the pointer.)
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