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Cat’s Eyes
I’ve been running a very unscientific experiment for awhile now. It has produced some very interesting results that I can’t seem to explain. So every time my cat comes up to me and wants to jump on my...
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Clifford’s Ethics of Belief
Last post I took as a starting point the fact that people should want to hold true beliefs. It turns out that W. K. Clifford (yes, of Clifford fame in mathematics) wrote a famous essay in 1876 on the...
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Rorty’s Pragmatism
Today I’d like to talk about Richard Rorty. He was an American philosopher that became famous in the late 70’s and 80’s for advocating a new form of pragmatism. I thought this might be a timely topic,...
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Does Bayesian Epistemology Suffer Foundational Problems?
I recently had a discussion about whether Bayesian epistemology suffers from the problem of induction, and I think some interesting things came from it. If these words make you uncomfortable, think of...
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Against Against Theory
I’ve been getting a lot of hits on my critical theory posts and the ones on Hirsch’s Validity in Interpretation. I thought I’d do some more on famous papers on related issues. Probably the most...
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The Ethics of True Knowledge
This post will probably be a mess. I listen to lots of podcasts while running and exercising. There was a strange confluence of topics that seemed to hit all at once from several unrelated places. Sam...
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