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[…] J’ai lu quelques théories convaincantes sur ce qui s’est peut-être passé ici à New York, mais je sais que cela va prendre beaucoup de temps avant que cette crise puisse être pleinement comprise à plusieurs niveaux, de l’épid…

For me, this is one of those situations where the terms can be an impediment. Epistemic/epistemology refer to knowledge, but not what “knowledge” is of. Epistemic justification of a proposition in chemistry requires different knowledge from the epistem…

Here’s a puzzle for the philosophers out there, a request for your intuitions. Suppose that we accept a minimal moral realism according to which moral propositions are bivalent on a correspondence theory of truth.  Now suppose that I’m epistemically justified in believing that p, where p is a moral prescription of some kind–an injunction to…

Irfan; Please delete the previous comment if that’s convenient. Another interesting take on the subject: Is Police Reform A Fundamentally Flawed Idea? sean s. LikeLike

Another interesting take on the subject: I hope the HTML works… sean s. LikeLike

Dictionaries can lag behind societal developments, and the idea that a “word” indisputably “means” what dictionaries say is simply sloppy.

We teamed up with the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt to produce a video on climate change: ‘Who is responsible for climate change? – Who needs to fix it?’.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Regarding the distinction: either, via subjective normative reasons, it does the work of fully explaining rational evaluation in the (actual or potential) premise-relative respect — or not. Regarding subjective normativ…

In reply to mlyoung57. OK. In that case, I guess I agree with you, though as usual with any discussion of “reasons,” I never really know what I’m signing on to. I need a bit of clarification here: the distinction between mental-state…