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Einsteiniana: No Understanding Is Necessary	13 views	0 replies	Pentcho	16.5.2012 18:04
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For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. - Meditations -- Marcus Aurelius

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2007

CFP: Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association July '08

The Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association will be held at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland from 11-13 July 2008. The deadline for submitted papers for the Graduate Sessions and the Open Sessions is 1 February 2008. OPEN SESSIONS A number of parallel sessions on Saturday and Sunday afternoons will be available for the presentation of papers not previously published. There will be a considerable number of these sessions available, allowing room for many submissions to be included. The intention is to accommodate all philosophical material suitable for presentation to a professional audience, so far as time and space in the programme allow, and not to operate a selective policy. Each presentation should last no more than 20 minutes, so that a further 10-15 minutes may be allowed for discussion. Presented papers should aim to introduce material involving recent research. There are no restrictions on the areas of philosophy which papers may address. Philosophers whose papers are included in this part of the programme must be or become subscribing members of one of the organising societies.

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2007

Without Justification

Jonathan Sutton, Without Justification, MIT Press, 2007, 180pp Reviewed by Earl Conee for NDPR: "The main thesis of this work is that epistemically justified belief is knowledge (JK). JK has the striking implication that no justified belief is false, as the author Jonathan Sutton well knows. A case for JK is made in the first two chapters. The other two chapters defend views about testimony and inference, with arguments that are largely independent of JK. A main topic of the chapter on testimony is acquiring knowledge of a proposition from the testimony of one who knows it. This is held to require knowing that the testifier knows the proposition (KK). A main topic of the chapter on inference is good inference, good in that it has the most important epistemic virtue for an inference. This is held to be an inference that derives knowledge of the conclusion from knowledge of the premises (GIK). As Sutton well knows, GIK has the striking implication that no good inference has a false conclusion. Other extraordinary epistemic positions are defended along the way." more

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2007

New Book: The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet

Professor Daniel J. Solove (GW Law School) has published The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (Yale University Press, October 2007).

From the jacket cover: Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there™s a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives”often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false”will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy. [[b]Submitted by solove[/b]]

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