It’s hard to believe, but apparently there is empirical evidence. This points towards a cure: if we can teach conservatives to be less frightened by danger, they might abandon their crazy political views.
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Recently there have been some valuable inititiatives in the philosophy of science in MO.Three philosophers at U of MO – Columbia (Andre Ariew, Andrew Melnik, and Philip Robbins) have organized the first Missouri Philosophy of Science Workshop, which will take place next weekend in Columbia.And some philosophers in St. Louis …
Over the past two months, I’ve used a series of surveys to examine the relationship between the concept of knowledge and the concept of belief. So far, the results suggest that many people have intuitions which are in opposition to the claim that knowledge is a species of belief. For …
As announced a few weeks ago, I wrote a paper in which I survey the state of the art on computationalism. Thanks a lot to those who suggested topics I should cover. I touched on most of the suggested topics.The paper is due at Philosophy Compass by the end of the month. …
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The deadline for the SSPP 2009 is November 16, 2008. Consider submitting a paper or a symposium proposal. To submit a symposium proposal, the main thing you need are three or so willing participants, their contact information, and abstracts of the proposed papers.As I pointed out before, both the venue (Savannah, …
