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Epistemological scientism and the scientific meta-method
This paper argues that the proponents of epistemological scientism must take some stand on scientific methodology. The supporters of scientism cannot...
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Francis Bacon’s Elenchus
Since the interpretation of Francis Bacon’s method is new, it will need to be supported by his text. This chapter combines his entire method with key...
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Why purists should be infallibilists
Two of the most orthodox ideas in epistemology are fallibilism and purism. According to the fallibilist, one can know that a particular claim is true...
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An Epistemic Reading of the Ideal of Co-authorship
The analysis I develop in this chapter aims at illustrating in a technical sense the epistemic nonideal circumstances that characterize our social...
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Review: Adam Tuboly (Ed.), The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Ayer’s Language, Truth and Logic, Palgrave Macmillan 2021
A.J Ayer occupies an unusual and unique position in the history of twentieth century philosophy. He remains both famous and infamous. In England...
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Emerson and Heidegger: Thinking as Thanking
Heidegger says that “what is most thought-provoking is that we are still not thinking,” I hear that as ironic. A gloss on the phrase could be, “I am...
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Rorty as Virtue Liberal
Virtue liberalism requires democratic citizens to possess certain ethical character traits, like open-mindedness, toleration, and autonomy. This puts...
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Self supporting evidence
Jessica Brown argues against infallibilist views of knowledge as follows. (1) Infallibilism is committed to the sufficiency of knowledge for...
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Apel and Habermas: Emancipatory Hermeneutics
Chapter 9 addresses the contribution to hermeneutics by the Frankfurt School theorists Karl-Otto Apel and...
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Revolutionary Language-Game Pragmatism After the Linguistic Turn
This chapter introduces Rorty’s anti-representationalist critique of traditional (linguistic) philosophy as epistemology. It introduces the main...
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The Possibility of the Extended Knower
In their influential paper “The extended mind” (1998), Andy Clark and David Chalmers argue for the possibility of the extended mind. Based on Clark...
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Smith, Smith and Seth, and Newton on “Taking to Be True”
Taking (a proposition) to be true is an epistemic theme appearing throughout George E. Smith’s work; this includes his marvelous new book with Raghav...
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Fallible reasons on behalf of fallibilism
In this paper I introduce a problem regarding whether there are good reasons to accept fallibilism about justified belief. According to this species...
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Grace de Laguna’s 1909 critique of analytic philosophy: presentation and defence
Grace A. de Laguna was an American philosopher of exceptional originality. Many of the arguments and positions she developed during the early decades...
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The Moral Agent: A Critical Rationalist Perspective
Despite the moral underpinnings of Karl Popper’s philosophy, he has not presented a well-established moral theory for critical rationalism (CR). This...
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Pragmatic Encroachment and the Threshold Problem
The threshold problem for knowledge is the problem of saying where the threshold for knowledge lies in various cases and explaining why it lies there...