Friday, November 20, 2015

Is this trans girl the 20th most powerful person in Vancouver?

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This week Vancouver Magazine published its list of the 50 most powerful people in Vancouver for 2015 . Number 20 this year is Tru Wilson , ...
Monday, October 19, 2015

How to get Thrifty to pay me the money they owe me (update Nov 9, Jan 10, Feb 10, Aug 20, Oct 17, Nov 8)

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I've been trying for almost three months now to recover $706.39 USD I'm owed by Thrifty Car Rentals. So far all my attempts to commu...
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Friday, September 04, 2015

Evidence for presuppositions

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One of the things evidential challenges do is to question what grounds we have for our antecedent beliefs. Indeed, that's one of the mai...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The Certainty Norm of Assertion

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In a well-known paper , Jason Stanley argues against the knowledge norm of assertion, in favour of a certainty norm of assertion. As Jason n...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

Assertability without Assertion

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I think there are cases where one doesn't assert something, but one wouldn't be in violation of any norms of assertion if one did. P...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

External Factors and Evidential Symmetry

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I'm thinking about the relationship between factive reasons and internalism. A certain gumball machine has two possible modes. In mode...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Philosophical Assertions

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Chapter 9 of Sandy Goldberg's recent book Assertion  argues, on the basis of peer disagreement in philosophy, that it characteristic of ...