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August 28, 2008Aristotle, civil conversation, conservatism, Debra Candreva, Eric Kos, George Feaver, Gerhard Wolmarans, hegel, hobbes, idealism, inference to the best explanation, Josiah Lee Auspitz, Keith Sutherland, kenneth minogue, liberalism, liberty, martyn thompson, oakeshott, philosophical jurisprudence, philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, relativism, Richard Friedman, Richard Rorty, robert grant, social constructivism, social epistemology, Spinoza, terry nardin, timothy fuller, Wendell John Coats Jr

The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott

A rather belated plug for this book. The follow up is currently being edited.

July 13, 2008albert casullo, arnon keren, episteme, epistemology, inference to the best explanation, jennifer lackey, john greco, jonathan adler, marc moffett, patrick rysiew, paul faulkner, Peter Lipton, philosophy of social science, social epistemology, testimony, trust, truth

Perspectives on Testimony

A reminder: if you haven’t already done so, this special offer has only one week to run (July 21). In addition to the introduction, this issue comprises 10 papers (168 pages). Well worth the effort! Download here EPISTEME homepage

May 13, 2008arnon keren, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, inference to the best explanation, jennifer lackey, john greco, jonathan adler, marc moffett, patrick rysiew, paul faulkner, Peter Lipton, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology

Testimony abstracts

The abstracts for issue 4:3 of EPISTEME are now available. Apologies for not having them when the announcement was first made – a publisher glitch (to put is very politely).

January 29, 2008Adams & Aizawa, Bounds of Cognition, Chalmers, cognitive science, consciousness, dementia, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, inference to the best explanation, journal of mind and behavior, metaphysics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology

Bounds of Cognition II

Press release cum interview for The Bounds of Cognition, a book I have already heartily recommended. I’m pleased to say that the authors are contributing to a themed issue of the Journal of Mind and Behavior on the “extended mind” that I’m editing.

January 1, 2008epistemology, inference to the best explanation, oakeshott, Peter Lipton, philosophy of history

With the passing of Peter Lipton, who formulated and coined the term “inference to the best explanation“(IBE) I was reminded that I once “controversially” (at least to some, though not philosophers of history) deployed the term in a paper to do with the philosophy of history. When I spoke to Peter about it, he couldn’t see any…