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 [...]
A few days ago I read Mark Schroeder’s short piece “The Negative Reason Existential Fallacy.” In it, Schroeder attacks the following type of argument (found on page 1):
(P1*) It follows from view V that there is a reason [for X] to do A.
(P2*) But obviously there is no reason [for X] to do A.
(C*) So [...]
Richard posted about his future research interests a few months ago. His post got me thinking about what my main future research interests are. I will follow him by adding the disclaimers that this list is not exhaustive, that I am sure new projects will strike my fancy in the future, and that I am [...]
Over at the papers page of this site I have posted a new paper and two updates on older papers. The new paper is “The Respect Model of Freedom of Expression”. I wrote about the issues discussed in this paper here and here. The updated papers are “Changing Places: The Personal Reason Requirement and Patient [...]
Those of you who have been following my rationality posts in the past few weeks know that the notion of being in a position to know is central to my analysis of substantive rationality. Up until yesterday, I thought that it was fairly obvious what this notion is. However, now I am not quite sure. [...]
I have been having a fruitful email conversation with Mark Budolfson about the crux of arguments found in, e.g., my paper “Common Sense, Reliability, and Luminosity in Willamson’s Anti-Luminosity Argument” (Tom Blackson also has a paper on this, so does Stew Cohen and Mark). It basically boils down to this: there seems to be a [...]
