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What is Reasoning Good for?

Optimism about the Pessimistic Induction

Justification and the Growth of Error

Fallibility and Revision in Science and Society

Literalism and Cruelty to Animals

You Can Believe You're Stupid If You Try: updating in light of one's own unreliability

Sex and Logic: the evolution of negation

• Department
• Faculty
• Sherrilyn Roush
• Recent Courses
• CV
• Philosophy 4 -- Knowledge and its Limits
• Tracking Truth
• Tracking Truth - Pacific APA 2006 - Author meets Critics
• Recent Talks
• Tracking Truth - Philosophy of Science Association 2006 - Author Meets Critics
• Philosophy 128 -- Philosophy of Science
• Upcoming Talks
• Work in Progress
• Philosophy 122 -- Theory of Knowledge
• Seminar Fall '07: Self-monitoring, Rationality, and Justified Belief

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