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What Do Philosophers Do?

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In light of the rumblings about the APA (particular Velleman's criticisms) John Basl discusses that question we as philosophers should grapple with more.

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What Did Gettier Discover?

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In this post titled "Discoveries Merely About Concepts" Wo discusses a disagreement between Frank Jackson and Timothy Williamson over what it is that Gettier discovered with his classic counterexamples to the JTB analysis of knowledge.

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Modes of Philosophizing: A round table debate

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"Should philosophy have something to say to non-philosophers? Should philosophy be pursued only by those trained in philosophy? Should academic teachers of philosophy consider themselves philosophers in virtue of the fact that they teach philosophy? And should analytic philosophers deny that continental philosophers are philosophers at all, or acknowledge that they represent different modes of philosophizing? Cogito poses some big questions to four prominent British and US philosophers." (Jonathan Barnes, Myles Fredric Burnyeat, Raymond Geuss, and Barry Stroud.)

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Perception and Philosophy - TAR

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Weatherson has been blogging a bit about the epistemology of philosophy and here he appeals to some work in the philosophy of perception to sort out issues in the epistemology of philosophy.

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