Just a quick book note. Not exactly hot off the presses (a 2018 publication date) but still new-ish as philosophers reckon the passage of time. A work on epistemology rom Oxford University Press, FALLIBILISM by Jessica Brown. Here is the description, lifted straight from the publishers' website copy: What strength of evidence is required for knowledge? Ordinarily, we often claim to know something on the basis of evidence which doesn't guarantee its truth. For instance, one might claim to know that one sees a crow on the basis of visual experience even though having that experience does not guarantee that there is a crow (it might be a rook, or one might be dreaming). As a result, those wanting to avoid philosophical scepticism have standardly embraced "fallibilism": one can know a proposition on the basis of evidence that supports it even if the evidence doesn't guarantee its truth. Despite this, there's been a persistent temptation to end...
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This is a shout-out to Thom Brooks and Sebastian Stein, the editors behind a new anthology HEGEL'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY from Oxford University Press. Brooks is a professor of political philosophy at Durham University. I may have mentioned him in this blog before, because he has his own blog that regularly comments on Brit and Eurozone politics in a way I find stimulating. Stein is with the philosophy department of the University of Heidelberg. Other than that, I know nothing about him at all. But I'm not surprised Hegel is taught in Heidelberg. And I know little about the book, except what one can gather from a review by Timothy Brownlee of Xavier University, at NDPR: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/hegels-political-philosophy-on-the-normative-significance-of-method-and-system/ It seems from that review that one of the big questions underlying the book is whether what one thinks of the value of Hegel's political philosophy rises and falls with what one thinks of the v...
Forthcoming books on epistemology. Each of the following books will become available at some point between today and the end of the year, and is available for pre-order now. Yes, I've simply gotten these from amazon, and didn't feel inspired to do anything more ambitious today. There are more -- I stopped at an even dozen out of laziness. Douglas Edwards, Truth: A Contemporary Reader (Bloomsbury Academic) R.G. Collingwood, An Essay on Philosophical Method (Key Texts), eds. James Connelly and Giuseppina D'Oro St Augustine Press. Patrick J. Reider, ed., Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency Rowman & Littlefield. Donald Gillies, Causality, Probability, and Medicine Routledge. Mathew Altman, The Palgrave Kant Handbook Palgrave. Dmitri Nikulin, The Concept of History Bloomsbury Academic Helen Beebee and Christopher Hitchcock, Making a Difference: Essays on the Philosophy of Causation Oxford University Press. Peter Carruthers, The Centered Mi...