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Tribal Lands Statement. Western Washington University's main campus is situated on the ancestral homelands of the Coast Salish Peoples, who have lived in the Salish Sea basin, all throughout the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades watershed from time immemorial.
In this last domain, it is good to be knowledgeable and bad to ignore evidence, quite apart from the morality, prudence, and aesthetics of these things. This dissertation builds a theory that stands to the epistemic domain as utilitarianism stands to the moral domain. It builds an epistemic value theory. Like. Recommend.
Apr 25, 2013 · Dennis Whitcomb, philosophy department alumnus, will deliver the talk "You only believe that because you're a philosopher" at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in 203 Dickens Hall. He also will conduct a student-focused, read-or-watch-ahead philosophy of religion discussion at 11 a.m. Friday April 26, in 201 Dickens Hall based on his paper "Grounding ...
Dennis Whitcomb Western Washington University Archival history First archival date: 2020-03-11 Latest version: 2 (2022-01-25) View all versions. Categories.
Grounding and Omniscience. Dennis Whitcomb. Published 2011. Philosophy. I’m going to argue that omniscience is impossible and therefore that there is no God. The argument turns on the notion of grounding. After illustrating and clarifying that notion, I’ll start the argument in earnest. The first step will be to lay out five claims, one of ...
May 31, 2016 · Dennis John Whitcomb, age 72 of Amery, Wisconsin, died peacefully at home surrounded by his family. Born November 1, 1943 in St. Paul, Minnesota, he served three years in the U S Army followed by a few brief jobs before purchasing a Texaco service station.
A fascinating recent turn in epistemology focuses on inquiring attitudes like wondering and being curious. Many have argued that these attitudes are governed by norms similar to those that govern our doxastic attitudes.
