archive

Epistemic duties

Narve Strand (NTNU): Why Is It Good to be Rational? Wittgenstein, Putnam, and the Way Through Universalism and Relativism. From Principia, Scott Stapleford (STU): Epistemic Duties and Failure to Understand One's Evidence; and Zoltan Vecsey (HAS): On the Epistemic Status of Borderline Cases. From Philosophy Now, David Fraser reviews Donald Davidson: A Short Introduction by Kathrin Gluer; Richard Baron reviews The Laws of Belief by Wolfgang Spohn; and Nikki Dekker reviews A User’s Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff. Tim Bayne on his book Thought: A Very Short Introduction. Carrie Figdor interviews Herman Cappelen, author of Philosophy Without Intuitions. Hilary Kornblith is the jiving naturalising epistemologist who takes issue with both armchair and non-armchair philosophers because he thinks all they’re doing is fighting over how to do conceptual analysis.