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65In this paper I argue that in his Theaetetus, Plato does not anticipate Gettier’s (1963) rejection of knowledge as justified, true belief.
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17Night of the Living WordsIn Chris Baker, Brandon Brown, Melissa Owens Stewart & James Travis Young (eds.), Amipotence Vol. 1: Support and Criticism, Sacrasage Press. pp. 271-276. 2024.In this short invited chapter, I argue that whereas some people may be warranted in thinking that God is what Thomas Jay Oord refers to as “amipotent,” or only empowered to be perfectly loving, other people may be equally as warranted in thinking that God is instead omnipotent, or all-powerful, depending upon pragmatic considerations.
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565This is not an academic paper. It is the hurried thinking out loud of an academic who is admittedly late to the game when it comes to taking our present climate catastrophe seriously. What I suggest is that if we want to study living systems, which we must do if we want to increase our chances of survival as a species, we also need to study what I refer to as death systems.
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351I'll be honest, I am embarrassed that I wrote this paper. I am only leaving it up because I once made the decision to put it out there, I don't think it is hurting anyone, and I think it important to take responsibility for my mistakes. Here is what I would say about this paper now - I deny that there is good reason to think that things have "essences" or "natures." Insofar as "natural philosophers" might be said to study the natures of things, I no longer want to be identified as a natural phil…Read more
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499This is an open letter addressed to my fellow Pragmatists concerning the Problem of Induction. Others are of course also welcome to read it.
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737In this paper, I share my story about some of my experiences with doubt. Along the way, I also share some philosophical reflections. I know this does not tell you very much, but like I said, I am telling a story, and I do not want to spoil the ending.
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693Be warned, since writing this version of the paper, I have significantly changed my view on Hume’s problem of induction. While I still think that what I have argued in this penultimate draft applies to certain skeptical reconstructions of Hume’s argument, I no longer think that it applies to Hume’s actual argument as he employed it. I am currently working on a final version of this paper where I will argue that Hume’s argument for the problem of induction still fails by his own lights. However,…Read more
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844In this paper I shall explain how I came to realize that for as long as I believed that there exists an epistemic gap, or veil of perception, separating the world into that which is subjective and internal to the mind from that which is objective and external to the mind, I was unable to provide a compelling argument for the existence of this same epistemic gap.
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18Towards a strange interpretation of the Free Energy PrinciplePhysics of Life Reviews 47 76-78. 2023.In this short invited commentary, I raise a question for the proponents of Active Inference - how are we supposed to explain the fact that some organisms seem to be better at adapting to their environments than others?
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University of Western OntarioDoctoral student
Areas of Specialization
| Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
| Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |
PhilPapers Editorships
| Justification |
| Science of Perception |