Sean Hermanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4206381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Hermanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermanson |
| SIGNATURE | HERMANSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Digital Epistemology Reconsidered
Concerns over the toxicity of social media have prompted philosophers to develop a new branch of epistemology focused on the epistemic evaluation of cognitive environments: Environmental Epistemology (though we will mostly use the descriptor, ‘Digital Epistemology’). Traditional epistemology is about the evaluation of persons or groups and this overlooks the evaluation of things and systems in their own right. Epistemic environments – spaces, rea…
The End of The Road
The closing paragraph of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road hums with mystery. Some find it suggestive of renewal, though only vaguely. Others contend that it does little to ameliorate the novel’s pessimism. Still others find it offers both lamentation and hopefulness, while some pass it over in silence. As an admirer with a taste for puzzle solving, here I offer a new interpretation revealing a surprisingly optimistic denouement
The Pragmatist's Troubles with Bivalence and Counterfactuals
Je me demande ici si les conceptions pragmatiques de la vérité peuvent être réconciliées avec les intuitions ordinaires quant à la portée de la bivalence. Je soutiens que les pragmatistes sont conduits à accepter une distinction du genre «type / occurrence» entre les formes d'une investigation et ses instanciations particulières, sous peine de banaliser leur vérificationnisme. Néanmoins, même la conception révisée que j'examine échoue à sauver le…
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The Pragmatist's Troubles with Bivalence and Counterfactuals
Je me demande ici si les conceptions pragmatiques de la vérité peuvent être réconciliées avec les intuitions ordinaires quant à la portée de la bivalence. Je soutiens que les pragmatistes sont conduits à accepter une distinction du genre «type / occurrence» entre les formes d'une investigation et ses instanciations particulières, sous peine de banaliser leur vérificationnisme. Néanmoins, même la conception révisée que j'examine échoue à sauver le…
The End of The Road
The closing paragraph of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road hums with mystery. Some find it suggestive of renewal, though only vaguely. Others contend that it does little to ameliorate the novel’s pessimism. Still others find it offers both lamentation and hopefulness, while some pass it over in silence. As an admirer with a taste for puzzle solving, here I offer a new interpretation revealing a surprisingly optimistic denouement
Digital Epistemology Reconsidered
Concerns over the toxicity of social media have prompted philosophers to develop a new branch of epistemology focused on the epistemic evaluation of cognitive environments: Environmental Epistemology (though we will mostly use the descriptor, ‘Digital Epistemology’). Traditional epistemology is about the evaluation of persons or groups and this overlooks the evaluation of things and systems in their own right. Epistemic environments – spaces, rea…
Epistemology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Closing (real estate (1 works) · Counterfactual conditional (1 works) · Digital Education and Society (1 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 works) · Digital Media and Philosophy (1 works) · Epistemic virtue (1 works) · Epistemology of Wikipedia (1 works)