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Robert Nozick

Today marks the death of Robert Nozick one of the most versatile philosophers of the last quarter of the 20th Century. The more I read Nozick, the more astonishing his talent seems to be. He writes with such subtle twists about so many issues from politics to epistemology to identity to consciousness, to ethics to…

adrian haddock, alvin goldman, duncan prichard, episteme, epistemology, Ernest Sosa, Frederick F. Schmitt, jennifer lackey, Jonathan Kvanvig, Lorraine Code, Michael Lynch, miranda fricker, paul faulkner, ram neta, sandy goldberg, social epistemology

Social Epistemology in Good Health

Here is a new title from OUP comprising new essays on social epistemology. Some of the best names in the business are here. This is a nice compliment to the New Studies and  Essential Readings volumes that came out earlier in 2010.

cognitive science, concept of mind, conservatism, corey abel, Descartes, epistemology, knowing how knowing that, oakeshott, philosophy of history, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, ryle, situated cognition, social epistemology

Ryle and Oakeshott

At last here is the book in which my essay “Ryle and Oakeshott on the know-how/know-that distinction” appears, masterly edited by Corey Abel. A draft of the paper can be found here. Don’t get hung up by the use of the word “conservatism” in the collection’s title – Oakeshott’s conservatism bears no resemblance to those…

Christian List, disagreement, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, formal epistemology, game theory, Horacio Arló-Costa, Judgment Aggregation, multi-agent modeling, network theory, networks, social connectionism, social networking, testimony

EPISTEME 2011

The 2011 EPISTEME conference will focus on the intersection of formal and social epistemology. The use of formal models in social epistemology is not a new development. Many philosophers have modeled concepts and ideas in social epistemology by using formal tools of various types (e.g., game theory, Bayesian decision theory, the theory of judgment aggregation,…

active externalism, adam smith, Adams & Aizawa, advances in austrian econmics, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, austrian economics, collective intentionality, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, free-flow of knowledge, hayek, iterative knowledge, open access, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, richard stallman, science, scientific publishing, social constructivism, social epistemology, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, systemsoriented social epistemology, The Knowledge Hub for Pathology

Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker

My talk “Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker” for the 2010 Wirth Conference at Simon Fraser University October 15 & 16, 2010 on “Austrian Views on Experts & Epistemic Monopolies.”  I think the talk went down OK. Good to see some old friends and make new friends. Thanks to Wirth for sponsoring the…

epistemology, helsinki metaphysical club, naturalism, philosophy of mind

Belief in Naturalism: An Epistemologist’s Philosophy of Mind

Here’s a paper from Susan Haack to be delivered at the Helsinki Metaphysical Club. In philosophy, George Santayana famously observed, “partisanship is treason.”  I agree. Like good-faith inquirers in any field, philosophers have an obligation to seek true and illuminating answers to the questions that concern them; and it would obviously be a serious breach…