Paul Boghossian Silver Professor of Philosophy, NYU Paul Artin Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University and director of its New York Institute of Philosophy. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has published many papers in the philosophy of mind and epistemology, on such topics as color, rule-following, eliminativism, naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, and relativism. He is the author of Fear of Knowledge (OUP 2006) and co-editor (with Christopher Peacocke) of New Essays on the A Priori (OUP 2000). A collection of his essays – Content and Justification – was published by OUP in 2008. A series of exchanges with Timothy Williamson on the analytic and the a priori, will appear from OUP in 2018. Participant In: “Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing Saturday, October 14th, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others… read more »
“Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing Saturday, October 14th, 2017 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » A nomenclator was a slave whose duty was to accompanying his master in canvassing the streets of Classical Rome in order to recall the names of those his master encountered. Each of us is, in a way, both that ancient politician and that slave, relying on others’ memories to supply us with knowledge, and others… read more »