Something about Much Ado
Sooooooo, I have my final comprehensive exam on December 20th. This is the last test I'll ever have to take, the hardest, and the most important. Thus not much bloggage.
However, I wanted to say that the session on Virtue Epistemology at the American Catholic Philosophical Association was great! I commented on a fine paper by Stephen Grimm, and had a great time discussion Jason Baehr's paper with him. Both were very thought provoking and both provided great interaction with evidentialism. John Greco organized it and Linda Zagzebski was in attendance. I hope to write more about this later.
Then I had a great time at the Knowledge and Understanding conference at Edinburgh where Ernie Sosa gave a great over view of his views expressed in his two new volumes. I gave a paper arguing that understanding was reducible to knowledge that and then while I was there gave a commentary on Ernie's MS with a very illuminating response by him.
Then it was up to Saint Andrew's for the BKW, what a beautiful campus on a beautiful little town. It's probably my next favorite town to Stirling. It was fun to try to get Crispan Wright and Jim Pryor to hammer out exactly wherein they differ.
My main thought coming out of this flurry of activity is that there are good prospects for unifying a fairly traditional evidentialism with virtue theory. The key is in the basing relation and in the varying levels of generality at which they tend to speak. I hope to expand on this after the 20th.
One of the pics is from the Arche Basic Knowledge Workshop at Saint Andrew's. The other is from a boat off the Isle of Skye.
For more of the same see my Picasa site.
However, I wanted to say that the session on Virtue Epistemology at the American Catholic Philosophical Association was great! I commented on a fine paper by Stephen Grimm, and had a great time discussion Jason Baehr's paper with him. Both were very thought provoking and both provided great interaction with evidentialism. John Greco organized it and Linda Zagzebski was in attendance. I hope to write more about this later.
Then I had a great time at the Knowledge and Understanding conference at Edinburgh where Ernie Sosa gave a great over view of his views expressed in his two new volumes. I gave a paper arguing that understanding was reducible to knowledge that and then while I was there gave a commentary on Ernie's MS with a very illuminating response by him.
Then it was up to Saint Andrew's for the BKW, what a beautiful campus on a beautiful little town. It's probably my next favorite town to Stirling. It was fun to try to get Crispan Wright and Jim Pryor to hammer out exactly wherein they differ.
My main thought coming out of this flurry of activity is that there are good prospects for unifying a fairly traditional evidentialism with virtue theory. The key is in the basing relation and in the varying levels of generality at which they tend to speak. I hope to expand on this after the 20th.
One of the pics is from the Arche Basic Knowledge Workshop at Saint Andrew's. The other is from a boat off the Isle of Skye.
For more of the same see my Picasa site.
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