We know what the criteria will be, and we know most (but not all) of the inputs, what we don't know is the new arbitrary "weightings." Professor Muller (Iowa) charts the possibilities on various reasonable assumptions about weightings. (I'm not sure those schools boycotting the rankings will do worse in the reputational surveys, but we'll see.)
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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…
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…