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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Cilantro, Moral Truth, and Justification

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Preamble: I've been working on this paper for longer than I care to admit but I have to turn it in at some point. I've written ...

Sunday, September 21, 2014

The Reliability of Blogs vs Conventional Media: A Response to David Coady

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Response to David Coady's “An Epistemic Defence of the Blogosphere” Preamble/vocab for non-philosophers : I wrote this for a ...

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Gettier Revisited

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I've talked about Gettier before and much of what I say here will overlap with what I've already said. It turns out I'm much mo...

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Monday, July 21, 2014

Why Epistemology Matters: Reason Number 2

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Introduction A while back, in an attempt to assuage feelings of doubt, I wrote a post on why the main issues in epistemology matter to Joe ...

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Why Study Philosophy? Epistemology Edition

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I been having this weird experience of questioning the value of studying philosophy. Well, not so much for me personally, but for people wh...

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Gettier: The Challenge to the Traditional Conception of Knowledge

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Introduction and Context Gettier's "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?" is considered to be one of--if not the most--impor...

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