Certain Doubts

The SEP, certainly one of the most important and valuable initiatives in my career in philosophy, continues to work on a permanent endowment in order to ensure the continuation of the project, and their latest efforts involve a membership organization called the “Friends of the SEP Society.” Ed Zalta and Uri Nodelmann have been sending out information about this organization, and given the importance of the project, I thought it might be useful to copy and paste some of the information here for those who have not yet heard about the initiative. More information below the fold. (more…)

Episteme’s annual conference will be taking place in Evanston, IL, 6/27 – 6/28, on the campus of Northwestern University.  The topic is the Epistemological Significance of Disagreement.  For details regarding the speakers, the program, or local accommodations see here.  Information is also available at Episteme’s own web site, here.

This conference is sponsored by the Philosophy Department at Northwestern University, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities (Northwestern University), the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, and Rutgers University.   The organizers are Alvin Goldman (Rutgers), David Christensen (Brown), and Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern).

All are welcome to attend.

Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of Certain Doubts. To date, there have been 843 posts, 5808 comments, and 7 pages. Thanks to all who have helped make this site such a success!

It is worth noting that of all things posted, two are runaway hits in terms of the stats page. (One I won’t count here: the definition of Palindrome was a monster hit, but isn’t of professional interest). Among items of professional interest, Keith’s post on postmodernism remains the entry with the highest number of hits, while the citation-based rankings of PhD programs in philosophy in the U.S. is the biggest hit since its publication on December 19, 2007.

Available here, reviewed by Clare Batty from the University of Kentucky. The book is Bob’s Locke lectures from 2007, and I hadn’t noticed that it was out.

Oxford is beginning a large venture, to create selective bibliographies across disciplines of important topics in each discipline. Duncan Pritchard is editing the philosophy section, and I’m not sure who else is on the editorial board, but as part of my agreeing to be on it, I also agreed to do some entries. One of them is on coherentism, available here. The draft is very rough at this point, so any comments, including sins of omission as well as commission, are welcome!