Problems of Epistemology

Problems for Bayesian Epistemology

In the past, few mainstream epistemologists have endorsed Bayesian epistemology, feeling that it fails to capture the complex structure of epistemic cognition. The defenders of Bayesian epistemology have tended to be probability theorists rather than epistemologists, and I have always suspected they were more attracted by its mathematical elegance than its epistemological realism. But recently ...

The Epistemology of Scheduling Problems

Scheduling is a knowledge-intensive task spanning over many activities in day-to-day life. It deals with the temporallybound assignment of jobs to resources. Although scheduling has been extensively researched in the AI community for the past 30 years, efforts have primarily focused on specific applications, algorithms, or 'scheduling shells' and no comprehensive analysis exists on the nature o...

Problems with the Appeal to Intuition in Epistemology

Adam Feltz (Please obtain quotable copy from Philosophical Explorations) George Bealer argues that intuitions are not only reliable indicators of truth, they are necessary to the philosophical endeavor. Specifically, he thinks that intuitions are essential sources of evidence for epistemic justification. I argue that Bealer's defense of intuitions either (a) is insufficient to show that actual ...

Genetic Epistemology and Naturalized Epistemology

When I started studying philosophy at the lycée , the very first book that I read happened to be Piaget’s Sagesse et illusions de la philosophie. I hated it. It explained that philosophy can, to some extent, keep its traditional role of searching for wisdom in the practical domain, but that it is no better than poetry when it tries to say things about the nature of the world, and even when it s...

Why Social Epistemology Is Real Epistemology