Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

One week ago, Tyler Cowen, the prolific co-author of the popular “Marginal Revolution” blog, published this odd post on “The IRS tax data leak.” Instead of engaging the merits of these damning allegations — the fact that many of the … Continue reading →

On this day (June 14) in 1959, the Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opened to the public in Anaheim, California. Via Wikipedia, here are some facts and figures about Disneyland’s original monorail … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMNtiSvQWyg

Alternative Title: Review of Robert Sanger, “Gettier in a Court of Law” (Concluding Post) Alternative Title #2: The Irrelevance of Gettier Problems (with Apologies to Linda Zagzebski) I want to conclude my review of Sanger’s Gettier paper with the following … Continue reading →

I am interrupting my series on Sanger’s Gettier paper to share this New Yorker cartoon. Benjamin Franklin, among others, is reported to have said, “… in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Shall … Continue reading →

Alternative Title: Review of Robert Sanger, “Gettier in a Court of Law” (Part 4) If you go back to my previous posts in this series (see here and here, for example), you will notice that they all involve photographic evidence … Continue reading →

Alternative Title: Review of Robert Sanger, “Gettier in a Court of Law” (Part 3) I want to continue my review of Sanger’s paper “Gettier in a Court of Law” by returning to the Zapruder film of the assassination of JFK. … Continue reading →

Alternative Title: Review of Robert Sanger, “Gettier in a Court of Law” (Part 2) Picking up where we left off in my previous post, let’s now turn to the second part of Professor Sanger’s Gettier paper, where he shows how … Continue reading →

I am interrupting my series of blog posts on “the Zapruder film and the Gettier problem” (see my previous post, for example) to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the last day of the infamous Zoot Suit Riots, which occurred over … Continue reading →