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Much has been made of Clark Glymour’s manifesto on philosophy. Discussions of Glymour’s manifesto can be found here, here, and here. These discussions explore at length the details of Glymour’s manifesto. In this post I’m going to broaden the focus and briefly explore the value of philosophy assumed

There is an interview with John Mikhail found at the Philosophy Bites website. This interview provides an overview of his theory of Universal Moral Grammar. It’s a nice primer for reading his full theory as outlined in Elements of Moral Cognition. Directly access the interview by clicking here. File

This discussion was brought to my attention on Leiter Reports. It’s an interesting discussion with Joshua Cohen about Rawls’ theory of justice and how it relates to the Occupy Wall Street movement. A colleague of mine (Quentin Gee) notes the following quote by Rawls on his UCSB profile page. “When p

At the New Books in Philosophy website there’s an interesting discussion on Sandy Goldberg’s recent book Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology (2010). Host Robert Talisse talks to Sandy about arguments in the book regarding the following topics: reliabilism, social epistemology, testimony and

Over at the Philosophy TV website there’s a good discussion of the notion of belief. Jonathan Weisberg and Kenny Easwaran discuss partial belief versus full belief. The discussion provides a solid overview of the different positions one could take on the interplay between probabilistic belief and fu

Branden Fitelson (forthcoming) provides counterexamples to Richard Feldman’s principle that Evidence of Evidence is Evidence (EEE). Here’s the principle in its initial (naïve) form: (EEE1) If E (non-conclusively) supports the claim that (some subject) S possesses evidence which supports p, then E su

Videos from the BLED conference on “Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom” are now online. Click HERE to access the videos. In side-by-side format you can view both the video of the talk and the presentation slides from the talk. This avoids awkward transitions when one window pane tries to show both

There’s a good discussion of social epistemology at the Philosophy TV website. Alvin Goldman and Jennifer Lackey provide a primer on this growing subfield. Filed under: Social Epistemology, Testimony, Videos

There’s a great workshop at Stanford this weekend on logic, epistemology and science. This workshop features tutorials and talks at the intersection of those domains. In addition, the tutorials and talks draw on a number of formal methods (e.g., dynamic epistemic logic, learning theory and probabili

There’s a workshop on “knowing how” at the University of St Andrews on July 2-3, 2011. Below is a blurb about the workshop and a link to the workshop’s website. What is the nature of the knowledge one has when one knows how to do something? Gilbert Ryle (1949) famously claimed that “knowing how” cou