{"id":327,"date":"2010-09-29T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2010\/09\/29\/faculty-news-department-of-philosophy\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T22:43:00","slug":"faculty-news-department-of-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2010\/09\/29\/faculty-news-department-of-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Pace<\/strong>, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Philosophy, Wilkinson College, has an article appearing in the most recent issue of Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. \u201cPerceptual Foundational Justification and the Problem of the Speckled Hen\u201d criticizes several prominent theories of how experiences give us knowledge of the world. (The criticism involves a thought experiment about seeing a hen with many speckles.) 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