Gettier cases assume a particularist methodology in that they appeal to our intuition about what knowledge consists of. When encountering a Gettier case, we tend to say, “I may not know why, but that’s not a case of knowledge.” Pure intuitions are quite different, however. [More]

Philosophers who believe that Gettier-style arguments pose a substantial problem for the tripartite theory of knowledge vastly outnumber those who do not. In this series, I’m going to throw my lot in with the latter group and argue that Gettier arguments do not present substantial counterexamples to the justified true belief theory of knowledge as commonly construed. [More]

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on “Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action” Guest Editors: Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh) and Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven University of Technology) Submission Deadline: September 15, 2011... [More]

This coming fall, Tilburg University (The Netherlands) will host a two day workshop titled, “Formal Epistemology Meets Experimental Philosophy.”  From the workshop’s website: Over the years, the methodological toolbox of philosophers of science has widened considerably. Today, formal and ex... [More]

Northwestern’s department of philosophy is holding a workshop on the epistemology of groups on August 1st, 2011. Talks include “A Deflationary Account of Group Testimony” and “Group Belief: Lessons from Lies and Bullshit” Info here.

Leading epistemologist Jonathan Kvanvig has posted the slides for his upper division epistemology course here. They cover the roots of epistemology, skepticism, foundationalism and coherentism, internalism and externalism and epistemic value.

Call for Papers Formal Epistemology Week Konstanz, June 4-6, 2012 Organized by Rachael Briggs (Sydney), Kenny Easwaran (USC), Franz Huber (Konstanz), Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto). Speakers include Jeff Barrett (UCI/Konstanz), Joe Halpern (Cornell/Konstanz), and the organizers. The Formal Epi... [More]

I first encountered Alvin Plantinga’s work back in the early 1990s when I was going through a particularly excruciating intellectual crisis. Twenty years later I was able to sit down with him and talk about his newest book. [More]

Editor’s note: I’ll be attending a faculty colloquium on Wednesday, May 11th with Dr. Plantinga and will try to tweet some of what happens there. Dr. Plantinga also agreed to sit down for an interview with me in which we’ll discuss his new book. I’ll be publishing that interview closer to the date o... [More]

The journal will be published by Cambridge University Press (currently being published by Edinburgh University Press) and, more importantly, will cover all of epistemology (formerly it covered just social epistemology). This is a big announcement and the journal's growth and broadened emphasis is an... [More]