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April 5, 2012alvin goldman, episteme, epistemic systems, epistemics, epistemology, social epistemology

EPISTEME 9:1

The new issue of EPISTEME, our first with CUP, is now available. Cambridge University PressCognitive scienceEPISTEMEEpistemologyKnowledgePhilosophy of mindsocial epistemologySocial SciencesStigmergy

March 31, 2012collective knowledge, episteme, epistemology, social epistemology

I notice that EUP are still offfering issue 7:3 as a free download. How long this will last I don’t know but one might as well take advantage of this offer. Of course, check out our new home with CUP who are also making freely available six choice papers from other issues. Also check out the EPISTEME…

March 13, 2012epistemology, experience and its modes, metaphysics, oakeshott, philosophy of history

Experience and its Modes: A Reappraisal

Here is a recent (2009) review of one of my favourite books. The review is infinitely warmer than the snippy Stebbing review I mentioned in a post some two years ago. HistoryMichael OakeshottOakeshottPhilosophyPhilosophy of historyrationalism

March 12, 2012culture wars, episteme, epistemology, James Robert Brown, social constructivism, social epistemology, sokal hoax, SUSAN HAACK

Culture wars revisited

Michael Lynch and Alan Sokal enagage in a most civil dialogue: Defending Science: An Exchange. Readers might also be interested in Susan Haack’s Defending Science-Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism and James Robert Brown’s Who Rules in Science?: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars – two cracking reads – and both past contributors to EPISTEME. Alan SokalChristian fundamentalismChristianityDavid HumeEpistemologyGodMICHAEL LYNCHReason

March 5, 2012andrew sullivan, epistemology, fundamentalism, liberalism, michael freeden, michael oakeshott, social epistemology

Sullivan’s Oakeshott

Whatever difficulties one might find with Andrew’s eclectic philosophical reconciliation (queer theory, Catholicism, conservatism) he captures the essence of Oakeshott very well he in this “elevator speech.” Oakeshott’s so-called “conservatism” bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the ossified character attributed to conservatism by “conservatives” of a fundamentalist stripe. In any event, ideologies are far more fluid…

March 3, 2012Alva Noë, Alvin Plantinga, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, rationality, reason, religion, science

Plantinga and Noë on the science vs religion debate

Noë reviews Plantinga’s latest book. from a naturalistic point of view, we have every reason to doubt that our cognitive faculties are reliable. Therefore we can’t seriously believe naturalism. For to believe it would be to have grounds for doubting the reliability of our own inclinations to believe it. Alvin Plantingaand NaturalismChristopher HitchensExistence of GodReligionWhere…