Tuesday, August 12, 2008
UT Methodology Workshop
Well, it's finally that time. I'll be spending the next 5 days at the Methodology Workshop, which kicks off today with Roy Sorensen's 'What Makes Something Interesting?' and our own Josh Dever's 'Linguistic Idealism.
Alex G and Alex B have done a fantastic job putting this all together, and I'm anticipating it being a really fun event.
Alex G and Alex B have done a fantastic job putting this all together, and I'm anticipating it being a really fun event.
Labels: Conferences, Methodology
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Methodology Workshop Update - King, Korman, Driver
Jeff King, Julia Driver and Dan Korman have been confirmed as faculty participants since my previous post. And this may not be the finished list - look out for further updates.
Labels: Conferences, Methodology
Sunday, December 09, 2007
X-Phi in the News
Anthony Appiah has what struck me as an interesting and sensible article on experimental and armchair philosophy in the NYT today. Well worth a look.
Labels: Links, Methodology
Friday, October 05, 2007
Grice on the Goals of Philosophy
Here is a lovely quote from the closing paragraph of Grice's 'Postwar Oxford Philosophy' on the goals of philosophy:
'They want philosophy to be grand, to yield one important, nonempirical information which will help one to solve either the world's problems or one's personal problems, or both. To them I feel inclined to reply in the end: "You are crying for the moon; philosophy has never really fulfilled this task, though it may sometimes have appeared to do so (and the practical consequences of its appearing to do so have not always been very agreeable). It is no more sensible to complain that philosophy is no longer capable of solving practical problems than it is to complain that the study of the stars no longer enables one to predict the course of world events."'
(Studies in the Way of Words: 179-80)
'They want philosophy to be grand, to yield one important, nonempirical information which will help one to solve either the world's problems or one's personal problems, or both. To them I feel inclined to reply in the end: "You are crying for the moon; philosophy has never really fulfilled this task, though it may sometimes have appeared to do so (and the practical consequences of its appearing to do so have not always been very agreeable). It is no more sensible to complain that philosophy is no longer capable of solving practical problems than it is to complain that the study of the stars no longer enables one to predict the course of world events."'
(Studies in the Way of Words: 179-80)
Labels: Methodology
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Philosophical Methodology: Defending Intuitions
I've been following with interest the thread on Leiter Reports discussing Jason's post on the relevancy of facts about natural language to philosophy.
Now Marc Moffett has a post up on Close Range critiquing Weinberg, Nichols, and Stitch's research indicating cross-cultural variation in responses to Gettier cases. It seems like this is to be the first in a series of posts on this topic. Anyone with a serious interest in philosophical methodology should head over there.
Now Marc Moffett has a post up on Close Range critiquing Weinberg, Nichols, and Stitch's research indicating cross-cultural variation in responses to Gettier cases. It seems like this is to be the first in a series of posts on this topic. Anyone with a serious interest in philosophical methodology should head over there.
Labels: Jason Stanley, Links, Methodology
