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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…
The highest court in the EU has cleared the way for doing so, now let's hope it will really happen. Money, as usual, talks very loudly and may produce real reforms in these countries.
(Recall that school desegregation in the U.S. did not start really happening until more than a dozen years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and only when the federal government announced it would withhold federal education funds from school districts not in compliance!)
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