Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Gettier and Garrison: Justified True Beliefs and JFK
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
Edmund Gettier and the Case of the Negligent Shepherd
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
Remember the Zoot Suit Riots
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
The Zapruder Film as a Gettier Problem
Alternative Title: Review of Robert Sanger, “Gettier in a Court of Law” (Part 1) Now that I am back from my short beach vacation, I want to turn my attention to Bob Sanger’s beautiful 2018 paper “Gettier in a Court … Continue reading
Monday Mathematics
Check out this beautiful paper by Jöran Friberg: “A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts” — the final page of which is pictured below — hat tip: @pickover.
Visualizing 6 June 1944 (D-Day)
Originally posted on prior probability:
In honor of the anniversary of D-Day, I am re-blogging my “D-Day in Numbers” post below. prior probability View original post
Starship Saturday
Are you ready to fly to Mars? In addition to my summer readings (see my previous post), I have also read this fascinating essay titled “The profound potential of Elon Musk’s new rocket: an aerospace engineer explains why SpaceX’s Starship … Continue reading
My top ten readings (summer break)
My family and I will be spending the weekend at Ormond Beach to celebrate the end of the school year, so I will be blogging less frequently, if at all, until Tuesday. (My youngest daughter’s last day of school was … Continue reading
Throwback Thursday: Darwin in Tierra del Fuego
“Deconstructing Darwin” was one of my first scholarly papers — it was published in Volume 14 of the Griffith Law Review, a law journal in Australia, way back in 2005! Below is the abstract: “The paper considers Charles Darwin’s physical … Continue reading

