John Cheek's paper

I just posted John Cheek's paper, "Trust and Social Knowledge," to the sidebar. Here are his instructions:

Fellow epistemologists,

I've attached the paper I plan to talk about at our next meeting. It is fairly long, so I would suggest focussing on Sections 1 and 3. Section 2 is a long consideration of how my theory applies to different views in the testimony literature, which many of you have no doubt had enough of by this point, though I'm happy to discuss those ideas as well if anyone is interested.

I will plan to give a (very) brief summary of the ideas in section 1 and (hopefully) more fleshed out presentation of the theory I hint at in section 3. Look forward to seeing many of you on Thursday.

Presentation schedule

I just posted the presentation schedule on the sidebar, under 'Other Docs.' Please note the slight change to the schedule. There is a conflict with the 2/23 meeting, so I just moved my presentation to the next slot. I wrote 'cancelled' for the 2/23 date because there is a department event at that time.

Here's the text of Pat's email, which accompanied his paper, for those of you who did not receive it:

"Hi everyone,

Next week I will be presenting some material from the attached paper [now posted on the sidebar], which I wrote for Wayne's seminar last semester. You are welcome to read the whole paper, but I will be focusing on the material from section 1.  In my presentation, I'll develop the argument that certain facts about computational complexity mean that human agents cannot take into account all of their beliefs when they entertain new hypotheses. I'll argue further that epistemologists should acknowledge this fact, and that in light of it they should revise their normative standards  to bring them within reach of real agents.  

See you on Thursday!

Pat"