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Education -- Employment
-- Awards -- Publications
-- Presentations -- Grants
-- Teaching
CHRONOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Colleges Attended:
Degrees:
- B.A. in psychology, University of California, Irvine, 1985.
- B.A. (cum laude) in philosophy, University of California, Irvine,
1987.
- M.A. in philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1991.
- Ph.D. in philosophy, University of California, Irvine, 1995.
Dissertation:
- "A Defense of a Probabilistic Method of Establishing Mathematical
Truths",
Advisor: Penelope
Maddy.
Major Fields:
- Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Information,
Information
Ethics, Philosophy of Mathematics
CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT
- Software Engineer, Deltronic
Corporation,
Santa Ana, California, 1987-1997.
- Teaching Assistant, Department
of Philosophy, University of
California,
Irvine, 1988-1995.
- Teaching Associate, Humanities
Core Course, University of
California,
Irvine, 1992 and 1994.
- Visiting Researcher, Department
of Philosophy, University of
California,
Irvine, 1995-1997.
- Visiting Instructor, Department
of Philosophy, Fullerton College,
1997.
- Assistant Professor, School
of
Information
Resources and Library Science, University
of Arizona, 1997-2004.
- Visiting Researcher, School
of
Information
Science and Policy, State
University
of New York at Albany, 2003.
- Visiting Instructor, Department
of Philosophy, Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, 2003.
- Associate Professor, School
of
Information
Resources and Library Science, University
of Arizona, 2004-present.
- Visiting Researcher, Department
of Philosophy, Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey, 2005.
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department
of Philosophy, University of
Arizona,
2005-present.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Regent's Fellowship, University of
California,
Irvine, 1988.
- Summer Research Fellowship ($2,832), Focused Research Program in
Public
Choice, University of California, Irvine,
1990.
- Justine Lambert Prize in Social Justice ($1,000), University
of California, Irvine, 1991.
- Humanities Essay Award, University
of
California,
Irvine, 1991.
- Summer Dissertation Fellowship, University
of California, Irvine, 1992.
- Research Grant ($500), Organized Research Initiative on
Scientific
Explanation, University of California,
Irvine,
1994.
- Foreign Travel Grant ($1,000), Association
for Symbolic Logic, 1995.
- Foreign Travel Grant (seven times), International
Affairs, University of Arizona,
1997-2006.
- Outstanding Faculty Award (virtual), Library
Student Organization, University
of
Arizona, 2004.
SERVICE
- Organizing Committee: Information
Ethics Roundtable, 2003-present.
- Chair: Research
Group on
the History and Philosophy of Information Access, 2006-present.
- Treasurer: Arizona
Chapter
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
2001-present.
- Consulting Editor: Episteme:
A
Journal of Social Epistemology.
- Referee: Nous, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic,
Educational
Researcher, Philosophia Mathematica, Annual Review of
Information
Science and Technology, British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science, Episteme, Philosophy of Science, Journal
of
Medical Internet
Research, Social Epistemology,
Journal of Education for Library
and Information Science, Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis,
Synthese, Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology, Foundations of Science, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
- Contributor: Foundations
of Mathematics List.
- Member: American
Philosophical
Association, American Society for
Information
Science
and Technology, Canadian Society
for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, International Association for Computing and Philosophy,
International
Center for Information Ethics, Philosophy
of Science Association.
- Departmental Committees (current):
Research (chair), P&T Task Force
(chair), Faculty Status, PhD
Studies.
- Departmental Committees (past):
Peer Review, Admissions.
- Dissertation Committees (past):
Dennis Whitcomb (Rutgers, Philosophy), Ming Yuan (Arizona, Management
Information Systems).
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
on
Epistemology:
- "Veritistic
Social Epistemology and Information Science", Social
Epistemology, 14, 4, (2000): 305-316.1
- "Goldman on
Probabilistic
Inference", Philosophical
Studies, 109, 3, (2002): 223-240.
- (with Gerrard Liddell) "Further
Results on Inquiry and Truth Possession", Statistics
and Probability Letters, 60, 2, (2002): 169-182.
- "Epistemic
Value Theory and Information Ethics", Minds
and Machines, 14, 1, (2004): 101-117.2
- "On
Verifying the Accuracy of Information: Philosophical Perspectives",
Library
Trends, 52, 3, (2004): 463-487.
- "Epistemic Value
Theory and Judgment Aggregation", Episteme, 2, 1,
(2005): 39-55.
- "The Epistemic Costs
and Benefits of Collaboration", Southern
Journal of Philosophy, 44,
S, (2006): 197-208.
- "Epistemic Value
Theory and Social Epistemology", Episteme, 2, 3, (2006): 177-188.
- "Social
Epistemology and Information Science", Annual
Review of Information Science and Technology, ed. Blaise
Cronin, Information Today, 40, (2006): 475-519.
- "Probability as a Guide to Poker", Poker
and Philosophy, ed. Eric Bronson, Open Court, (2006): 93-104.3
- "Epistemic Value
Theory and the Digital Divide", Information
Technology
and Social Justice, eds. Emma Rooksby and John Weckert, Idea
Group,
(2007): 29-46.*
- "Attitudes Toward
Epistemic Risk and the Value of Experiments", Studia
Logica, 86, 2,
(2007): 215-246.
- "Collective
Epistemic Goals", Social
Epistemology, 21, 3,
(2007): 267-280.
- "Toward an
Epistemology of Intellectual Property", Journal of Information Ethics, 16, 2, (2007): 34-51.*
- (with Adam Arico, Nathan Ballantyne, Matt Bedke, Jacob Caton, Ian
Evans, Brian Fiala, Martin Frické, David Glick, Peter Gross,
Terry Horgan, Jenann Ismael, John Pollock, Daniel Sanderman, Paul
Thorn, Orlin Vakarelov) "An
Objectivist Argument for Thirdism", Analysis, 68, 2, (2008): 149-155.
- "Toward an Epistemology of Wikipedia", Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
59, forthcoming.*
- "What is Lying?", Journal of Philosophy,
forthcoming.*
- (with Dennis
Whitcomb) "Epistemic Values and Information Management", Information Society,
forthcoming.
on Philosophy of
Mathematics:
- "Mathematical
Proof and the Reliability of DNA Evidence", American
Mathematical Monthly, 103, 6, (1996): 491-497.4
- "The
Source
of Chaitin's Incorrectness", Philosophia
Mathematica (3), 4, 3, (1996): 261-269.
- "The
Epistemic Status of Probabilistic Proof", Journal
of Philosophy, 94, 4, (1997): 165-186.5
- "The
Reliability of Randomized Algorithms", British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 51, 2, (2000):
255-271.
- "What Do
Mathematicians Want?: Probabilistic Proofs and the
Epistemic
Goals
of Mathematicians", Logique
et Analyse, 45, 179-180, (2002): 373-388.6
- "Intentional
Gaps
in Mathematical Proofs", Synthese, 134,
1-2, (2003): 45-69.
on Information Ethics:
- (with Martin Frické and Kay Mathiesen) "The Ethical
Presuppositions
Behind the Library Bill of Rights", Library
Quarterly, 70, 4, (2000): 468-491.7
- "Information
Ethics for 21st Century Library Professionals", Library
Hi Tech, 25, 1,
(2007): 23-36.
- (with Kay Mathiesen) "Information Ethics and the Library
Profession", Handbook of Information
and Computer Ethics, eds. Herman Tavani and Kenneth Himma,
Wiley, (2008): 221-244.
on Information Accuracy:
- (with Martin Frické) "Indicators
of Accuracy of Consumer Health Information on the Internet", Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association, 9, 1,
(2002): 73-79.8
- (with Martin Frické) "Verifiable
Health Information on the Internet", Journal
of Education for Library and Information Science, 43,
4,
(2002): 262-269.
- (with Martin Frické) "Indicators
of Accuracy for Answers to Ready Reference Questions on the Internet",
Journal
of the American Society for Information Science and Technology,
55, 3, (2004): 238-245.
- (with Martin Frické, Marci Jones, and Gianna M. Luszko) "Consumer
Health Information on the Internet about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome:
Indicators
of Accuracy", American
Journal of
Medicine, 118, 2, (2005): 168-174.
Papers in Conference Proceedings:
- "Signaling Theory and Internet Epistemology", Proceedings of WebNet
- World Conference of the WWW, Internet, and Intranet,
Charlottesville,
Virginia: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education,
(1998).
- "Inaccurate
Consumer
Health Information on the Internet: Criteria for Evaluating Potential
Solutions", Proceedings of the Annual
Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association,
Bethesda,
Maryland: American Medical Informatics Association, (1999).
- (with Kay Mathiesen) "Consistency Rules for Classification
Schemes",
Proceedings of the 6th International
Conference
of the International Society for Knowledge
Organization,
Germany: Ergon Verlag, (2000).
- "Social
Epistemology and LIS: How to Clarify Our Epistemic Objectives", Proceedings
of the 29th Annual
Conference
of the Canadian Association for Information Science,
Québec,
Canada: Canadian Association for Information Science, (2001).
- "Clarifying the Epistemic Objectives of Mathematicians", Proceedings
of the Annual
Meeting
of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics,
Québec, Canada: Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of
Mathematics,
(2001).
- (with Martin Frické) "Verifiable
Health Information on the Internet", Proceedings of AusWeb02
- 8th Australian World Wide Web Conference, Queensland,
Australia:
Southern Cross University, (2002).
- "Social
Epistemology
and the Digital Divide", Conferences
in Research and Practice in Information Technology, 37,
Sydney, Australia: Australian Computer Society, (2004).
- (with Martin Frické) "Indicators
of Accuracy of Consumer Health Information on the Internet: A Review of
One Approach and its Results", Proceedings
of Mednet - World Congress on Internet in
Medicine, Toronto, Canada: JMIR Publications, (2006).
Cited but Unpublished Manuscripts:
Works Edited:
Opinion Pieces:
- (with Martin Frické) "Not by Library School Alone", Library
Journal, 124, 17, (1999): 44-45.11
- (with Martin Frické) "Teach Theory & Skills", Library
Journal, 125, 4, (2000): 8.
- (with Kay Mathiesen) Response to "A Utilitarian Case for
Intellectual
Freedom
in Libraries" by Tony Doyle, Library
Quarterly, 71, 3, (2001): 437-438.
- Introduction
to a special issue on "Social Epistemology and
Information
Science", Social
Epistemology, 16, 1, (2002): 1-4.
- (with Martin Frické) Reply
to "Consumer Health Information on the Internet", Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association, 9, 4,
(2002):
403-405.
- Reply to "What is the Goal of Proof?" by Aaron Lercher, Logique
et Analyse, 45, 179-180, (2002): 397-398.
Reviews:
- Review of a special issue of Educational Studies in
Mathematics
on "Aspects of Proof", Journal
of Symbolic Logic, 63, 3, (1998): 1196-1200.
- Review of Goodbye, Descartes by Keith Devlin, Mathematical
Intelligencer, 21, 2, (1999): 70-72.
- Review of The Language of First-Order Logic and Hyperproof
by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, Journal
of Symbolic Logic, 64, 2, (1999): 916-918.
- (with Kay Mathiesen) Review of The Cambridge Quintet by
John
Casti, Mathematical
Intelligencer, 21, 3, (1999): 77-79.
- (with Kay Mathiesen) Review of Doing Internet Research
edited
by
Steve Jones, Journal of
Documentation, 56, 5, (2000): 589-591.
- Review of "All That Glitters": Prospecting for Information in
the
Changing
Library World edited by Steven Vincent and Sue K. Norman, Library
Quarterly, 71, 3, (2001): 402-403.
- Review of The
Problem of Information by Douglas Raber, Library
Quarterly, 75, 1, (2005): 94-96.
- Review of On
Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt, Library
Quarterly, 75, 3, (2005): 383-384.
- Review of The Economic
Naturalist by Robert H. Frank, Library Quarterly, forthcoming.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
- "Resolving the Strengthened Two Envelope Paradox"
- "The Ethics and Epistemology of Labeling"
- "Lying and Deception"
- "Toward a Theory of Disinformation"
- "Bluffing and Deception: Epistemology at the Poker Table"
- (with Larry Sanger)
Edited issue of Episteme on
"The Epistemology of
Mass Collaboration"
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Colloquia:
- "The Source of Chaitin's Incorrectness", Department of
Philosophy,
University
of California, Irvine, 1991.
- "The Epistemic Status of Probabilistic Proof", School of
Information
Resources
and Library Science, University of Arizona, 1997.12
- "A Theory of Verifiable Information", Department of Philosophy,
University
of Arizona, 1999.13
- "The Epistemic Value of Ignorance", Department of Philosophy,
Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, 1999.
- "Social Epistemology, Decision Theory, and Information Science", (invited
lecture), NEH Summer Seminar on "Philosophical Foundations of
Social
Epistemology", University of Arizona, 2000.14
- "The Economics of Information Goods", Department of Business
Administration
and Economics, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 2000.
- "Epistemology as Value Theory", Department of Philosophy and
Religion,
James Madison University, 2001.15
- "Epistemic Value Theory and Information Services", Department of
Philosophy,
University of Washington, 2003.16
- "Epistemic Goals, Triviality, and Preference Change", Department
of
Philosophy,
University of Miami, 2004.17
- "Epistemic Values and Information Policies", School of Library
and
Information
Science, Indiana University, 2005.18
- "Toward a Theory of Disinformation", School of Information
Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, 2006.
- "What is Lying? Why Chisholm and Feehan were Almost Right",
Department of Philosophy,
Wayne State University, 2006.
- "Lies, Disinformation, and even a little Bullshit", Philosophy
Club, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2007.19
- "What is Lying?", Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science,
University
of California, Irvine, 2008.*
Conference Presentations:
- "A Defense of a Probabilistic Method of Establishing Mathematical
Truths", 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and
Philosophy
of
Science, Florence, Italy, 1995.20
- "Mathematical Proof and the Reliability of DNA Evidence", Annual
Meeting
of the Texas Section of the Mathematical Association of America,
Lubbock,
Texas, 1996.21
- "Rationality, Human Nature, and Hobbes' Third Law", Annual
Meeting
of
the Metaphysical Society of America, Nashville, Tennessee, 1997.
- "Intentional Gaps in Mathematical Proofs", International
Meeting on
Logic and Mathematical Reasoning, Mexico City, Mexico, 1997.22
- "Trailblazing and Trail Following: An Essay on Mathematical
Proof", Spring
Meeting of the Southwestern Section of the Mathematical Association of
America, Tucson, Arizona, 1998.
- "The Reliability of Randomized Algorithms", Workshop
on "Probabilistic Logic and Randomised Computation", 10th
European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information,
Saarbruecken,
Germany, 1998.23
- "Signaling Theory and Internet Epistemology", WebNet-98 -
World
Conference
of the WWW, Internet, and Intranet, Orlando, Florida, 1998.24
- "How
to Make Information on the Internet More Verifiable", Mid-Year
Meeting
of the American Society for Information Science, Pasadena,
California,
1999.
- "Inaccurate Consumer Health Information on the Internet: Criteria
for
Evaluating
Potential Solutions", Annual Symposium of the American Medical
Informatics
Association, Washington, DC, 1999.
- "Goldman's
V-value and the Declining Marginal Utility of Truth", Pacific
Division
Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, 2000.
- (with Kay Mathiesen) "Consistency Rules for Classification
Schemes", 6th
International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge
Organization,
Toronto, Canada, 2000.
- "Measures
of Epistemic Utility and the Value of Experiments", 17th
Biennial
Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver,
Canada,
2000.25
- "Goldman
on Probabilistic Inference (or Who Shot Miles Archer?)", Pacific
Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San
Francisco,
California, 2001.
- "Social
Epistemology and LIS: How to Clarify Our Epistemic Objectives", 29th
Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science,
Québec, Canada, 2001.
- "Information
Science and Epistemic Utility Theory", Annual Meeting of the
American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Washington, DC,
2001.
- (with Martin Frické) "Verifiable
Health Information on the Internet", AusWeb02 - 8th Australian
World
Wide Web Conference, Queensland, Australia, 2002.26
- "What
Do Mathematicians Want?: Probabilistic Proofs and the Epistemic Goals
of
Mathematicians", Eastern Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical
Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002.27
- (with Kay Mathiesen) "What Do We Know?: Collective
Knowledge
and
Collective Knowers", 5th St. Louis Philosophy of Social Science
Roundtable,
St. Louis, Missouri, 2003.28
- "Information Ethics and Epistemology", Information Ethics
Roundtable,
North Adams, Massachusetts, 2003.
- "Epistemic Value Theory and the Economics of the Digital Divide",
Computing
and Philosophy Conference, Canberra, Australia, 2003.
- "Teaching Ethics for Information
Professionals", Annual Conference of the American Library
Association,
Orlando,
Florida, 2004.
- (with Kay Mathiesen) "Collective Epistemic Goals", Collective Intentionality IV,
Siena, Italy, 2004.
- "The Epistemology of Intellectual Property", Information
Ethics Roundtable, Montclair, New Jersey, 2005.29
- "How Valuable is True Belief? A Critique of Goldman's Veritistic
Value
Theory", Spring Meeting of the New Jersey Regional Philosophical
Association,
Glassboro, New Jersey, 2005.
- "Epistemic Value Theory and Judgment Aggregation", (invited
lecture), Episteme Conference on Social Epistemology,
Amherst,
Massachusetts,
2005.30
- "Applied Epistemology and Philosophy of Information", European
Computing and Philosophy Conference, Trondheim, Norway,
2006.
- "Applying
Epistemology to Information Policy
Decisions", Annual
Meeting of the
American
Society for Information Science and Technology, Austin, Texas,
2006.31
- "Lying and Disinformation", North
American Computing and
Philosophy Conference,
Chicago, Illinois, 2007.
- "Toward an Epistemology of Wikipedia", Knowledge Rights and Information Sharing
in the 21st Century, Orlando, Florida, 2008.32
- "What is Lying?",
Pacific
Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Pasadena, California, 2008.
- "Resolving Horgan's Strengthened Two Envelope Paradox", Central Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Chicago, Illinois, 2008.
Commentaries:
- Comments on "Toward a More Truly
Social
Epistemology" by William Talbott, Conference In Honor of Alvin
Goldman,
Tucson, Arizona, 2001.
- Comments on "Welfare, Voting and
the
Constitution
of a Federal Assembly: A Monte Carlo Simulation" by Luc Bovens, Pacific
Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association,
Seattle,
Washington, 2002.
- Comments on "Goldman on
Knowledge
as True
Belief" by Pierre Le Morvan, Pacific Division Meeting of the
American
Philosophical Association, Pasadena, California, 2004.
- Comments on "Do Indigenous Peoples Have a Right to Cultural
Privacy?"
by
Michael Brown, Information Ethics Roundtable, North Adams,
Massachusetts,
2004.
- Comments on "How to Collaborate" by Paul Thagard, Spindel
Conference
on Social Epistemology, Memphis, Tennessee, 2005.
- Comments on "Prisoner's Dilemma:
The
Hard
Problem" by Lee Shepski, Pacific Division Meeting of the
American
Philosophical Association, Portland, Oregon, 2006.
- Comments on “Margins of Error in
Value Comparisons” by
Nicolas Espinoza, Pacific Division Meeting of the
American
Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, 2007.
- Comments on "The Verizon v.
RIAA Case Revisted: Some Further
Reflections on the Tension between Privacy and Property Interests" by
Frances Grodzinsky, Information
Ethics Roundtable, New York, New York, 2008.
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS
- ALISE Research Grant Award for "Verifiable Health Information on
the
Internet"
(50% effort; co-PI; $5,000), Association
for Library and Information Science Education, 2000.
- Stipend to participate in an NEH
Summer Seminar on "Proofs and Refutations in Mathematics Today" at
Case Western Reserve University ($3,700), National
Endowment for the Humanities, 2001.
- Information Science and Information Technology (TRIF) Grant for
research on "Verifiable
Health Information on the Internet" (50% effort; co-PI; $8,000), University
of Arizona, 2002.
- Information Science and Information Technology (TRIF) Grant for
research on "Identifying
Health Expertise on the Internet" (50% effort; co-PI; $10,000), University
of Arizona, 2002.
- Academic Year Proposal Development Award for "An Epistemological
Framework
for Evaluating Information Technology" ($4,000), University
of Arizona, 2004.
- Mini-Conference Grant to put on the 2006 Information Ethics Roundtable
(25%
effort,
co-PI, $1,900), American
Philosophical
Association, 2005.
- Grant to host 2007 ISI Samuel
Lazerow Memorial Lecture ($1,500), Thomson Scientific, 2006.
- International Visitors Fund ($400), University of Arizona, 2006.
- Grant to put on the 2007
Information Ethics Roundtable
(20%
effort, co-PI, $8000), Morris K. Udall
Foundation, 2006.
- Grant to host reception for keynote speaker at the 2007
Information Ethics Roundtable
(20%
effort, co-PI, $1000), Arizona Library
Association, 2007.
- Grant to host 2008 ISI Samuel
Lazerow Memorial Lecture ($1,500), Thomson Scientific, 2007.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor:
- Decision
Making for
Library
and Information Professionals,
- Information
Quality,
- Social
Epistemology
and Information Science,
- Ethics
for
Library
and Information Professionals,
- Verifiable
Information,
- Economics
of
Information,
- Systems
Analysis
and Evaluation,
- Knowledge
Structures,
- Operations
Research
for Libraries,
- Game
Theory and
Information, at the University of
Arizona, 1997-present.
- Logic and Critical Thinking, at Fullerton
College, 1997.
- Knowledge and the Information Age, at the Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, 2003.
Teaching Associate:
Teaching Assistant:
- Symbolic Logic,
- Contemporary Moral Problems,
- Problems of Philosophy,
- Introduction to Ethics,
- Medieval Philosophy,
- Contemporary Philosophy,
- Set Theory,
- Metalogic, at the University
of California, Irvine, 1988-1995.
NOTES
1 This article
looks
at Alvin Goldman's project in Knowledge in a Social World
(Oxford
University Press, 1999) from the perspective of information science.
See
pp. 331-332 in the same issue for Goldman's response.
2 See John
Artz's review
of this article in Computing Reviews
from the ACM.
3 See Jessica
Wittmer's review of this article on Amazon.com. Wittmer claims that there are at least two
philosophical
mistakes in this article. First, she
claims that "the Principal Principle has little to do with how
probability
should guide one's life." However,
if a principle of this sort (i.e., one that says how subjective
probabilities should
relate to objective chances) is not guiding her life, she is in serious
trouble (and not just at the poker table).
Now, there are certainly other
principles that should also guide
one's life. Most notably, if your
subjective probabilities are not coherent (e.g., if you assign a
probability of
0.9 to a coin coming up heads and a probability of 0.9 to that coin
coming
up tails), you are subject to a Dutch
Book.
That is, there is set of bets that you consider fair that is guaranteed
to cost you money.
But if your subjective probabilities do not match
the
objective chances (e.g., if you assign a probability of 0.9 to a fair coin
coming up heads), there is a bet that you consider fair that is objectively
likely to cost you money even if your subjective probabilities
are coherent. See, e.g., page 218 of "Probability
as a
Guide to Life" by Helen Beebee and David Papineau.
Wittmer does not even say what she thinks the second
mistake
in this article is. (She leaves finding
it as an exercise for the reader.) As a
result, it is harder for me to pin down why she is wrong about that one.
* This article
has been reprinted in Global Information Technologies: Concepts,
Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, ed. Felix B. Tan,
Information Science Reference (2008): 3091-3104.
* See pp.
52-54 in
the same issue for Marc Meola's response to this article.
* An
abridged and revised version of this article will appear as
"Wikipistemology", Social
Epistemology: An Anthology, eds. Alvin Goldman and Dennis
Whitcomb, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
* An
abridged version of
this article was presented at the Pacific
Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, Pasadena, California, 2008.
4 See Cristian
Calude's
review of this article in MathSciNet
from the AMS.
5 See A. A.
Mullin's
review of this article in MathSciNet
from the AMS.
6 See pp.
389-395 in
the same issue for Aaron Lercher's response to this article.
7 See Library
Quarterly,
72,
3, (2002): 275-293 for Tony Doyle's critical discussion of this article.
8 See the Journal
of the American Medical Informatics Association, 9, 4,
(2002):
402-403 for Dr. Carroll, Dr. Saluja, and Dr. Tarczy-Hornoch's response
to this article.
9 The results in
this
manuscript are cited by Alvin Goldman in "Quasi-objective Bayesianism
and
Legal Evidence", Jurimetrics, 42, 3, (2002): 237-260,
in
"Reply to Commentators", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
64,
1, (2002): 215-227, and in Pathways to Knowledge, Oxford
University
Press, (2002).
10 Cited
by Pierre Le Morvan in "Goldman on Knowledge as True Belief", Erkenntnis,
62, 2, (2005):145-155.
11 See Library
Journal,
125,
3, (2000): 134-136 for reader responses. The original article has
also been reprinted in the Section
on Education and Training Bulletin, 1, 3, (2000) of the
International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
12 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Philosophy and the
Department
of Mathematics, Texas Tech University, 1996.
13 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at the Spring Meeting of the
Southwestern
Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Silver City,
New
Mexico, 1999.
14 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the School of Library and Information
Science,
Indiana University, 2000.
15 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Philosophy,
Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, 2000.
16 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Philosophy, Northern
Arizona
University, 2002, to the Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts
College
of Liberal Arts, 2003, and to the School of Information Science and
Policy,
State University of New York at Albany, 2003.
17 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Philosophy,
Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts, 2004, to the School of Information Resources
and
Library Science, University of Arizona, 2004, and to the Department of
Philosophy, University of Arizona, 2004.
18 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Library and Information
Science, Rutgers University, 2004 and to the Department of Philosophy
and
Religion, Montclair State University, 2005.
19 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Philosophy Club, Rutgers University,
2007.
* An
earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Philosophy, University
of Arizona,
2008.
20 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at the Winter Meeting of the Association
for Symbolic Logic, San Francisco, California, 1995.
21 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Philosophy, University
of California, Irvine, 1995 and at the Joint Meeting of the
Northern
and Southern California Sections of the Mathematical Association of
America,
San Luis Obispo, California, 1995.
22 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at the Fall Meeting of the Southern
California
Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Fullerton,
California,
1996.
23 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at the Spring Meeting of the Association
for Symbolic Logic, Los Angeles, California, 1998 and at the Computing
and Philosophy Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1996.
24 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at the Computing and Philosophy
Conference
(held
as part of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy), Boston,
Massachusetts,
1998.
25 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Interdisciplinary Workshop on
"Normative
versus Cognitive-Descriptive Aspects of Probability and Utility: An
Encounter
with Richard C. Jeffrey", University of Arizona, 2000.
26 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at the Annual Conference of the
Association
for Library and Information Science Education, Washington, DC,
2001,
at the Annual Conference of the Association for Library and
Information
Science Education, San Antonio, Texas, 2000, and at the Annual
Conference
of the Arizona Library Association, Phoenix, Arizona, 2000.
27 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at an International
Conference on "Perspectives on Mathematical Practices", Brussels,
Belgium,
2002, at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and
Philosophy of Mathematics, Québec, Canada, 2001, and to the
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 2001.
28 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Philosophy, Middlebury
College, 2003 and to the Department of Philosophy, Charles Sturt
University,
2003.
29 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at the Computing
and Philosophy Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2004.
30 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the Department of Philosophy, University
of Arizona, 2005 and to the Department of Logic and Philosophy of
Science,
University of California, Irvine, 2005.
31 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented to the School of Information Resources and
Library Science, University
of Arizona, 2006.
32 An earlier
version
of this talk was presented at the North
American Computing and
Philosophy Conference,
Chicago, Illinois, 2007 and to the School of
Information Resources
and
Library Science, University
of Arizona, 2007.
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