In a recent post I reminisced about my appreciation of Jonathan. Here is an official communique from Brooklyn College. Brooklyn CollegeEPISTEMEEpistemologyJonathan AdlerPhilosophyPhilosophy of Educationsocial 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…
Here’s a plug for a very nice little recently released book by David Boucher and Andrew Vincent, two of the leading expositors of British Idealism. It’s about time an accessible and reliable work hit the shelves. David, by the way, has written a chapter on Oakeshott’s idealism for Paul and my “Companion” entitled “The Victim…
Here’s a review of K. Brad Wray’s Kuhn’s Evolutionary Social Epistemology. (Wray, by the way, has been a strong contributor to EPISTEME). It’s also worth checking out Alexander Bird’s entry on Kuhn for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Kuhn is one of those thinkers whose work has been tarnished by academics who need an off-the-peg philosophical outlook…
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
As mentioned in this paper, Locke and social epistemology is an improbable relation but . . . Locke’s reputation as a sceptic regarding testimony, and the resultant mockery by epistemologists with social inclinations, is well known. C.A.J. Coady paints Locke as an extreme example of epistemological individualism; Frederick F. Schmitt argues that Locke regards testimony…
Some two years ago I trailed this book. Helen Longino reviews Ana Cordeiro dos Santos’ book. EpistemologyHelen Longinosocial epistemology
I want to bring your attention to the primary EPISTEME url. No longer will the extentions eu.com/us.com be valid. Here is Cambridge University Press’ EPISTEME page. Cambridge University PressEPISTEMEEpistemologysocial epistemology
Here is a rather scathing review of David Weinberger’s Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room. The renaissance of Marshall McLuhan in the era of the Web is disappointing for a number of reasons, not the least of…
Sandy Goldberg gave an excellent talk yesterday. I’m looking forward to seeing some version of this coming out as a fully-fledged paper. Sandy is of course referring to one of the most famous papers in post-War philosophy. Abstract. According to the widely-endorsed safety condition on knowledge, S knows that p only if: not easily would…
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