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Yeah I think the distinction mainly comes down to how much formal tools are used within the paper. For example, Goldman's "A Causal Theory of Knowing" is very different than " 'Knowable' as 'Known After an Announcement' " by Balbiani et. al (is that how et. al is supposed to be used?) so it's natural to want to create a name for the papers that are more mathematically/logically oriented for organization's sake.

I wouldn't think so. For example you could look at the question "What is knowledge?" And this is inherently not a formal question. It could definitely be analyzed within formal frameworks but it does not need to be.

Oh yeah my bad that was ambiguous. The latter. The former would fall more under philosophy of math.

Formal epistemology is the study of knowledge within formal frameworks such as mathematics and logic.

So on the topic of rejections, we're presuming rejections for Carnegie Mellon, right? Or is there still hope?

The logical usage is never coming into play here though. The person that asked the question did not ask it using the logical or and the person responding was just using internet convention.

Are there people that don't like cheesy jokes?

It's just a common convention that answering "Yes" to an "either or" question means that both can happen.

Because you asked "Is it A or B?" And he answered "Yes". And when people do that they mean that both can happen. I also just have prior knowledge that both can happen so I already knew the answer.

He meant that either can happen. It varies depending on the specific school.

That sounds amazing if the universities would actually give helpful answers.

@philosophe awesome! I'm lucky enough to be taking a graduate seminar on formal epistemology this semester which has been great so far. Although the content we're looking at is pretty specific to that professor's areas of interest for research so there's a lot of formal epistemology I won't see in the class.

Well it has happened a few times where there was only one Berkeley acceptance reported for the first day they sent them out. So it's not unreasonable that zero could happen instead.

If the people that heard back aren't on gradcafe, yeah.

Yeah. I just assumed they were referring to HPS because it was in response to him being waitlisted at a different HPS program. If they weren't, my bad.

People have been invited for interviews on campus. You can see them posted in the results

@FoxAndChicken what are you interested in relating to philosophy and logic? I'm interested in those too, specifically formal epistemology/epistemic logic because I eventually want to get into epistemic game theory.

Notre Dame sent out an email today saying " The Philosophy Admissions Committee is planning to have reviewed all files and to provide you an update by February 26, 2016". And I assume by update they mean admissions decision.