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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
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…
MLK's speech is better-known, but I happened upon this recording (below) of the march's organizer, the great labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. He really had a majestic speaking voice. And while de jure racism has been defeated by his efforts, and King's, and many others, the economic issues remain little changed:
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