New papers

I’ve updated my ‘papers’ page. New papers include a shortened version of my paper on maximal rationality and the first half of my paper on contractualism and aggregation. Check them out and send me comments.

Slaves of the Passions Reading group…

…is now under way. Check out the first post here.

What do you get…

…when you combine Barnes and Noble’s 40% employee appreciation discount and $135.00 worth of gift cards?
You get a book buying spree of epic proportions:
Suite Française, by Irene Nemirovsky
Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart
Black Swan Green, by David Mitchell
American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Michael Sherwan
The Duty of Genius, by Ray Monk
Hilbert, by Constance Reid
No Country for Old [...]

Knowledge and its Limits reading group has begun

For those of you who are interested, The Excluded Middle’s reading group on Knowledge and its Limits is now underway. Check out the first installment here.

Supersession, Context-Dependence, and Historical Reparations (x-posted at TEM)

One of my main interests in political philosophy is reparations. More specifically, I am very interested in historical reparations (HR) (and not just because it is uncontroversial that reparations are due to victims of violations in the distant past). Paradigmatic cases where HR might be due are African American slavery, aboriginal atrocities, and Native American [...]

Someone point out my stupidity (x-posted at TEM)

I am currently reading my future teacher Al Casullo’s book A Priori Justification. I am really enjoying it thus far. It is clearly written, and the arguments are impressive. However, I am very confused about a few passages. On page 22 he writes,
Most contemporary theorists agree that knowledge in general does not require justification that [...]