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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…
A longtime member of the UCLA faculty, Professor Morris made major contributions to philosophy of criminal law and moral psychology. The UCLA memorial notice is here. Comments are open for remembrances from colleagues and readers of his work.
(Thanks to David Gordon for the pointer.)
Herbert Morris is one of my favorite philosophers. His work is so perceptive and rich that I find myself returning to it over and over again. I had a chance to meet him (online) in 2020 when I was part of a very small reading group that had been reading and discussing his papers. We invited him to join us for one of our meetings and he agreed. He was lively and generous and spoke with us for a couple of hours. At one point during the session, he said, with a smile, “I hadn’t read these papers in years…. Reading through them again, I couldn’t help but think, ‘Hey, this is actually pretty good!’”
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