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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…
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…
Professor Henrich, a preeminent German scholar of Kant and German Idealism, has died. Even in the Anglophone world, his work was influential. There is a brief notice in German here. I will add links to other memorial notices that will no doubt appear.
(Thanks to David Gordon for the pointer.)
UPDATE: A longer memorial notice, also in German. I'm also opening comments for remembrances from those who knew Professor Henrich or who would like to comment on his philosophical contributions.
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