Latest Results for Erkenntnis Category
Varieties of Metaphysical Coherentism
Abstract According to metaphysical coherentism, grounding relations form an interconnected system in which things ground each other and nothing is…
Higher-Order Evidence and the Dynamics of Self-Location: An Accuracy-Based Argument for Calibrationism
Abstract The thesis that agents should calibrate their beliefs in the face of higher-order evidence—i.e., should adjust their first-order beliefs…
Quine’s Underdetermination Thesis
Abstract In On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World from 1975, Quine formulated a thesis of underdetermination roughly to the…
The Object-Activity Theory of Events
Abstract Events are things like explosions, floods, weddings or births. Both in common-sense and scientific usage, events are spatially and…
Models as Fundamental Entities in Set Theory: A Naturalistic and Practice-based Approach
Abstract This article addresses the question of fundamental entities in set theory. It takes up J. Hamkins’ claim that models…
Structured Meanings and the Dynamic Role of Variables: A Dilemma for Pickel and Rabern
Abstract In a recent paper, Pickel and Rabern (2016) argue that a dynamic Tarskian semantics resolves Fine’s antinomy of the…
Save (a Small Proportion of) the Children
Abstract Faced with endlessly repeated opportunities to save drowning children, most people think morality intuitively permits us to indulge in…
Cats are not necessarily animals
Abstract Some plausibly necessary a posteriori theoretical claims include ‘water is H2O’, ‘gold is the element with atomic number 79’,…