Philosopher's Digest » Epistemology http://www.philosophersdigest.com Timely Reviews of Current Philosophy Articles Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:07:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 “Knowledge ascriptions and the psychological consequences of thinking about error,” Jennifer Nagel http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-quarterly/knowledge-ascriptions-and-the-psychological-consequences-of-thinking-about-error-jennifer-nagel http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-quarterly/knowledge-ascriptions-and-the-psychological-consequences-of-thinking-about-error-jennifer-nagel#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:00:17 +0000 Leo Iacono http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=875 When attempting to determine whether the subject of an epistemology case has knowledge or mere true belief, many of us find that our judgments are influenced by whether the case explicitly describes a way in which the subject’s belief could…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-quarterly/knowledge-ascriptions-and-the-psychological-consequences-of-thinking-about-error-jennifer-nagel/feed 1 “Single Premise Deduction and Risk” Maria Lasonen-Aarnio http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-studies/%e2%80%9csingle-premise-deduction-and-risk%e2%80%9d-maria-lasonen-aarnio http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-studies/%e2%80%9csingle-premise-deduction-and-risk%e2%80%9d-maria-lasonen-aarnio#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 12:00:48 +0000 Leo Iacono http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=560 Lasonen-Aarnio argues that a problem that might seem to affect only multi-premise closure (MPC), having to do with the accumulation of risk, is also a problem for single premise closure (SPC).

Here are the epistemic closure principles in question, as formulated…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philosophical-studies/%e2%80%9csingle-premise-deduction-and-risk%e2%80%9d-maria-lasonen-aarnio/feed 1 “Epistemic Bootstrapping” Jonathan Vogel http://www.philosophersdigest.com/jrnlphil/epistemic-bootstrapping-jonathan-vogel http://www.philosophersdigest.com/jrnlphil/epistemic-bootstrapping-jonathan-vogel#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 16:32:46 +0000 Andrew Cullison http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=535 The Journal of Philosophy, volume CV, number 9 (September 2008), pages 518-539.

Main authors discussed: Stewart Cohen, James Van Cleve, Michael Bergmann (Bergmann discussed in the Appendix)

Jonathan Vogel revisits his bootstrapping argument against reliabilism and defends it from the charge that internalism…

]]> http://www.philosophersdigest.com/jrnlphil/epistemic-bootstrapping-jonathan-vogel/feed 4 “Fallibilism, Epistemic Possibility, and Concessive Knowledge Attributions” Trent Dougherty and Patrick Rysiew http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/fallibilism-epistemic-possibility-and-concessive-knowledge-attributions-trent-dougherty-and-patrick-rysiew http://www.philosophersdigest.com/philphen/fallibilism-epistemic-possibility-and-concessive-knowledge-attributions-trent-dougherty-and-patrick-rysiew#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:29:10 +0000 Clayton Littlejohn http://www.philosophersdigest.com/?p=319 Main authors discussed: David Lewis and Jason Stanley

The fallibilist claims that it’s possible to know p even if your evidence for believing p does not entail p.  It seems that infallibilism entails scepticism because it seems that we don’t have…

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