For those interested, Eric Schwitzgebel and I have been exploring the relationship between knowledge ascriptions and belief ascriptions. We just finished a draft on this topic, which can be found here. Abstract: The standard view in contemporary epistemology is that knowledge entails belief. Proponents of this claim rarely offer a …
Scientists often give arguments of the form, “Given what we know about some lower high thing, some higher level thing is not possible.” Perhaps the most famous case of this for cognitive science is the 100-step rule that connectionists have alluded to. (This goes, very roughly: given what we know …
new web page dedicated to the philosophy of neuroscience
By Brit Brogaard. It’s called Lemmings (the term was coined by Weatherson: Language-Epistemology-Metaphysics-Mind-ings). Knowing Brit, I expect her blog to be good.
