Constitutional Skepticism and Local Facts

Some Skepticism About Normative Constitutional Advice

Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition

Collaborative Services Using Local and Personal Facts

Ubiquitous Computing is starting to be reality. The office and home environment of tomorrow has a much higher density of computing devices. Presumably a lot of these devices will be public in the sense that they can share their services with other services or users. Some of the devices will also be wireless and mobile. This dynamic service space will require a new information infrastructure for...

Skepticism and Naturalism : Can Philosophical Skepticism be Scientifically Tested ?

It may be possible to scientifically test philosophical skepticism; at least this is what I shall maintain. The argument develops the naturalistic insight that there may be no particular reason to suppose that nature has selected Homo sapiens’ epistemic capacities such that we are ideally suited to forming a true theory of everything, or indeed, a true theory of much of anything. Just as chimpa...

Mysterianism and Skepticism

The article discusses the proposals for replying to the skeptical challenge developed by the socalled Neo-mysterians, and more particularly by the most eloquent of them, Colin McGinn. McGinn’s version of mysterianism, which he labels “Transcendental Naturalism,” is a very candid and rigorous form of scientific naturalism since (contrary to the standard naturalistic views) it is prepared to conc...