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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…
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
…is causing vaccine manufacturers to cut back. God forbid there’s a bird flu pandemic with RFK Jr. running HHS. Since Senator Cassidy’s reward for voting for this imbecile was to have Trump back a candidate to run against him in the primaries, perhaps the Senator might try to do the right thing now and get…
…and it’s worrisome, especially given the imbeciles in Washington, D.C.
If knowledge is sociologically conditioned, then what, exactly, happens to the truth-status of the sociology of knowledge itself? This is…