Oswald was Indeed CIA!

I just stumbled on a couple of interesting declassified documents floating around the internet, and I couldn't resist sharing them with my readers. The first was written by the director of the CIA in 1964 and asserts that Lee (Harvey) Oswald did recon for the agency in the late 50s and reveals in the last paragraph that Oswald's famous 1959 "defection" to Russia was an agency assignment. Oh, that's nice. So when exactly was Oswald NOT on assignment?

The second document includes an attached 1947 memo that links Oswald's assassin Jack Ruby (formerly, Jack Rubenstein) to Congressman Richard Nixon as an informant of some sort. WTF?

Don't know when these docs were declassified or even if they are authentic, but here they are.

UPDATE: Here's a blog devoted to questions about the authenticity of the first document, also known as the McCone-Rowley Document.

Reasoner 1(4)

The fourth issue of the Reasoner is now available online. Here are the contents:

• Interview with Brendan Larvor
  David Corfield
  
  
• Conceivability, Possibility and Counterexamples
  Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
  
  
• A Counterfactual Account of Essence
  Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno
  
  
• Knowledge, Truth and Justification in Legal Fact Finding
  Déirdre M. Dwyer
  
  
• The Principle of Agreement
  John L. Pollock
  
  
• A Note on Kripke's Puzzle about Belief
  Christian Constantinescu
  

Oneness

Today Knowability turns one. We've had just under 20,000 visits, 14,000 uniques (first timers or those returning after an hour), and 8,000 first time visitors (based purely on a cookie). Contributions have been made by guest authors, Bryan Frances and John Greco, and much support was received from Brit over at Lemmings and from other weblog administrators. Thanks guys.

Epistemology and Methodology of Jaakko Hintikka

The Danish Research School in Philosophy History of Ideas and History of Science is sponsoring a Hintikka Symposium
November 16-17, 2007

Roskilde University, Denmark

Invited Speakers

* Adam Didrichsen
* Vincent F. Hendricks
* Jaakko Hintikka
* Stig Andur Pedersen
* Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen
* Robert Stalnaker
* Frederik Stjernfelt
* Tim Williamson

Program and Organizing Committee

* Vincent F. Hendricks
* Frederik Stjernfelt
* Stig Andur Pedersen

Remembering Justin D'Arcy Isom

I met Justin when we were both graduate students at the Ohio State University. He received his B.A. in philosophy at the University of Texas. He traveled much of the world alone and his ordinary descriptions of the world around him were often worth more than a thousand words. This was sort of remarkable since Justin had lost his sight at the age of one to a retinal nerve cancer. What I didn't realize at the time was that Justin's overall condition would degenerate. He died on April 23, 2007.

Justin and Neil Tennant devised a braille-like proof system so that Justin could more fully participate in discussions about (intuitionistic) proofs. Neil shares his memory of Justine in the department newsletter, Logos.