Richard Gale’s slender monograph is a sometimes insightful, sometimes enervating and always personal reckoning with John Dewey’s philosophy. Gale’s basic thesis is that Dewey is a unificationist malgré lui, that despite being committed to empiricism and pluralism his pragmatism remains profoundly metaphysical in a non-naturalistic sense. This claim is hardly new or surprising. Thinkers as diver...

Volume 1 left off. In the years immediately following World War II, logical positivism was drawing its last breaths, and new approaches to philosophy were gathering steam. In America, Quine was attempting to strip positivism of two of its cherished doctrines—the analytic/synthetic distinction, and the verificationist analysis of individual sentences—while rehabilitating its commitments to the c...

This version of the paper was submitted to the journal Metaphilosophy as part of a special issue dealing with the philosophy of the Web. The definitive version of the paper will be made available at Abstract The rapid growth and penetration of the Web raises important questions about its effects, not just on our social activities, but also on the nature of our cognitive and epistemic profiles. ...

Reviewed by: Platon: Meisterdenker der Antike by Thomas Alexander Szlezák Rafael Ferber Szlezák. Antike. Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2021. Pp. 779. Hardback, €38.00. Since 1976, when A. held his inaugural lecture as a private lecturer (Privatdozent) at the University of Zurich entitled "The Dialogue Form and Esotericism: On Interpretation Platonic Phaedrus" ("Dialogform und Esoterik. Zur Deutung...

How can one verify the accuracy of recorded information (e.g., information found in books, newspapers, and on Web sites)? In this paper, I argue that work in the epistemology of testimony (especially that of philosophers David Hume and Alvin Goldman) can help with this important practical problem in library and information science. This work suggests that there are four important areas to consi...