Javier González de Prado

Special thanks to Michele and Julia for their generous and very useful feedback!

My alternative proposal is that higher-order uncertainty can undermine the agent's access to the evidence. This explains the epistemic impact of higher-order evidence and its relation to inquiry (the fact that one’s access to the evidence is compromised is often a reason to further inquire).

Michele Palmira and Julia Staffel account for the impact of higher-order evidence by appeal to norms of inquiry(/transitional attitudes). I argue that these views fail to cover cases where agents lack reasons to further inquire (e.g., cases where agents know further inquiring will be ineffective).

“Higher-order uncertainty at the end of inquiry”, new paper out in Episteme:

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⭐The new project Higher-Order Normativity (HINORM), based at the Metis Group at UNED, and co-PI’d by Javier González de Prado (@jgonzalezdeprado.bsky.social) and Sophie Keeling, and composed of excellent international philosophers, has a new website!
Feel free to check it out: hinorm.weebly.com

Special Issue: Purpose in Biology: New Directions: Ratio: Vol 37, No 4 Ratio is an international analytic philosophy journal edited by University of Reading Professor David S. Oderberg.

New Special Issue published in Ratio on biological teleology: "Purpose in Biology: New Directions"
Many contributions, including one by me on organizational teleology 2.0
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Postdoc position in philosophy of biology with Matteo Mossio in Paris. Deadline for appl. 4 December.

Thanks!

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The rules and aims of inquiry Abstract. Are norms of inquiry in tension with epistemic norms? I provide a (largely) negative answer, turning to a picture of epistemic practices as rule-

New paper!

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Epistemic and Practical Normativity Program Tuesday, 20th of February 2024 9:30 – 10:45 Antti Kauppinen (University of Helsinki): “Norms for Questions” 10:45-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-12:30 Roman Heil (University of...

Next week (20-21 Feb) at the University of Sevilla, we have a new edition of the workshop 'Epistemic and Practical Normativity', co-organized by our colleague @jgonzalezdeprado.bsky.social within the framework of his project NANORIN, co-directed with Michele Palmira. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Today and tomorrow we are hosting the colloquium entitled 'LIFE, EVOLUTION, SENTIENCE' at Sala B Faculty of Philosophy, UNED, Madrid. More info: blogs.uned.es/metis/wp-con...

My department is hiring an assistant professor with an AOC in logic and an AOS in history and philosophy of the formal sciences and/or formal epistemology. More info (in Spanish) in the link below. Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

Presentación on-line del libro de José L. Zalabardo, Pragmatist Semantics (Oxford University Press... Inscripción sesión on-line 28 de noviembre de 2023, 16:00 (GMT+01:00) Hora de Europa central - Madrid

@jgonzalezdeprado.bsky.social will participate today at 4 pm (CET) in the online presentation of 'Pragmatist Semantics', a book by José L. Zalabardo (Oxford University Press) - Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Workshop: Lying and Truthfulness Workshop: Lying and Truthfulness Venue: Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Valencia. Date: 23-24 November 2023. Room F11 Thursday 23 15.15. Opening. Organizer...

Today @jgonzalezdeprado.bsky.social will present “Lies and Negotiations” at the Workshop 'Lying and Truthfulness', organized by the Valencia Philosophy Lab (UV) vlclab.blogs.uv.es/event/worksh...

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