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Gettier walks up to the counter. Before he can order, the Barrista confuses him for a regular and chirps “I know what you want.” By coincide

The recent discussion on neo-reactionary-ism brought out some references to (intellectual hipsters and) meta-contrarianism linking to a 2010

Since many LRers are fairly recent college graduates, it seems worthwhile to ask to what extent would people here agree with reports of ramp

I've been reading an anthology called Naturalizing Epistemology (1986) edited by Hilary Kornblith.    "Naturalizing" epistemology has been

I'd like to throw this out as a test project, in case there are any takers, or rather for now, mostly throw it out for comment and criticism

How much AI technique could it possibly take for google (or something better) to do a decent job with speechby:obama   attitude:positive

Some time ago, I was following a conversation about Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/), an attempt to implement a sort of general

"Realism" in the philosophical sense has to be relative to something - Plato's essences, "collective imagination", society, truth are among

It was nice to be with some new people, and you seem like some interesting seekers after truth.  I'm Hal, the guy who could be grandfather t

Is there a name for the (I claim) extremely common practice of blithely and unconsciously always looking at your own view (political especia