Eric Warrant

Eric Warrant

also argued that politicians should do more to counter the danger posed by climate change “ravaging” the biosphere. He called for massive investment in technological solutions such as biofuels. “They deserve a priority and commitment from government akin to that accorded to the Manhattan project to build the first atom bomb or the Apollo moon landing project in the 60s.” Also at the festival, f...

Warrant without truth?

This paper advances the debate over the question whether false beliefs may nevertheless have warrant, the property that yields knowledge when conjoined with true belief. The paper’s first main part—which spans Sections 2–4—assesses the best argument for Warrant Infallibilism, the view that only true beliefs can have warrant. I show that this argument’s key premise conflicts with an extremely pl...

Glycerol infusion rates warrant caution.

We would like to suggest another factor, namely, that of decreased platelet aggregation, which may contribute to their observation. We studied platelet aggregation in 25 newly diagnosed patients with Parkinson's disease and 25 ageand sex-matched controls. None were diabetic, hypertensive, smokers, or on any treatment. Citrated blood was collected by venipuncture and centrifuged at 20Qg for 10 m...

The Army Medical Warrant

Warrant and Objectivity

Wright’s Truth and Objectivity seeks to systematise a variety of anti-realist positions. I argue that many objections to the system are avoided by transposing its talk of truth into talk of warrant. However, a problem remains about debates involving ‘direction-of-fit’. Dummett introduced ‘anti-realism’ as a philosophical view informed by mathematical intuitionism. Subsequently, the term has bee...