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May 16, 2008 00:48 at Think Tonk
»The Daily Sabbatical
Robert Howell has started what will be a must read blog. The Daily Sabbatical. He’ll likely make me take the link down, so use your bookmarks people. by Clayton

May 15, 2008 23:49 at Leiter Reports
»Strong Statement by a Wash U Law Professor on the Schafly Honorary Degree Scandal
Here. by Brian Leiter

»What sorts of people should there be?
That’s the subject of a new blog run out of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. Rob Wilson (Alberta)… by Brian Leiter

»UK Philosophers Tackle the “Business Model” Being Forced on British Universities
Their blog is here. It deserves a wide readership; the issues it raises are not peculiar to the UK, though, ironically, because… by Brian Leiter

»The Appalling Buffoon Oliver Kamm…
…has surfaced again–a “vicious little merchant banker” Chris Bertram (Bristol) calls him–apparently because some people… by Brian Leiter


May 15, 2008 23:11 at The Ends of Thought
»Subjective Time and the A-Series   [time]
I?ve been lightly dabbling in philosophy of time (not very successfully, if last week?s letter from the APA is any indication) and wanted to throw out a couple of thoughts. The present line is largely… by Roman Altshuler

May 15, 2008 21:51 at Mormon Metaphysics
»Sider Defends Metaphysics   [Philosophy]
Richard at Philosophy Et Cetera had a great Sider quote the other day. Sider is one of my favorite contemporary philosophers. He writes in a very clear and lucid way. He’s that rare soul who can… by Clark

May 15, 2008 21:17 at Thoughts, Arguments and Rants
»Williamson?s Principle of Charity   
In Chapter 8 of The Philosophy of Philosophy, Timothy Williamson defends a new principle of charity. He says we should interpret people in such a way as to maximise what they know. This principle is… by Brian Weatherson

»What is the Principle of Sufficient Reason?   
The following two principles, both of which might be attempts to formalise a Principle of Sufficient Reason, seem distinct… by Brian Weatherson

»Compass Updates   
Here are some recent articles we’ve published in Philosophy Compass. Form, Principle, Pattern, or Coherence? Li… by Brian Weatherson

»What is a Gettier Case?   
The phrase “Gettier Case” is used with (at least) three different meanings that I’ve noticed. First,… by Brian Weatherson


May 15, 2008 19:46 at Philosophy, et cetera
»Aspiring to Objectivity   [ethics - good life] [philosophy]
[Another post I'm working on reminded me of this note from last September that I never got around to posting...] Is philosophy itself alienating? Excessive concern to achieve the ‘view from nowhere’ seems… by Richard

»Philosophy and Disciplinary Boundaries   [academia] [quotes]
Interesting. Should philosophy have something to say to non-philosophers? Should philosophy be pursued only by those trained… by Richard

»Natural and Projectible Predicates   [metaphysics]
Rachael remarks on the ’structure and similarity’ discussion: Should we distinguish between predicates that are projectable… by Richard


May 15, 2008 15:31 at Alexander Pruss’s Blog
»Livers, brains, conscious computation and teleology   [liver] [computation] [persons] [brain] [teleology] [naturalism] [consciousness]
Let us suppose, for the sake of exploration the following (false) thesis: I am conscious because of a part of me?viz., my brain?engaging in certain computations which could also be engaged… by Alexander R Pruss

May 15, 2008 11:34 at Theories ‘n Things
»Squeezing arguments   
Kreisel gave a famous and elegant argument for why we should be interested in model-theoretic validity. But I’m not sure who can use it. Some background. Let’s suppose we can speak unproblematically… by Robbie

May 15, 2008 06:01 at DuckRabbit
»Davidson and Dummett   [Wittgenstein] [Davidson]
In Davidson’s response (”The Social Aspect of Language”) to Michael Dummett’s criticism of Davidson’s 1986 article “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs,” he says that “what bothers Michael is [...] my failure… by Duck

May 15, 2008 05:17 at Philosophical Orthodoxy
»Why Some Presentists Should Believe that the Objects of Memories are not Past Tensed   [tense] [presentism] [philosophy] [religion] [metaphysics] [language]
Contrary to this previous post on the divine memories analysis of past-tensed statements, I think the defender of such a view actually ought to take the object of memory to be non-past tensed (and hence… by Ian

May 15, 2008 04:10 at Soh DAN
»McDowell Bleg   [McDowell]
Gabriel at Self and World has pointed out that two more McDowell collections are coming down the pike next year. One of the essays in “Having The World In View” sounds tantalizing, but I’ve never heard… by Daniel Lindquist

»Not On Davidson: A Response to Hacker   [Wittgenstein] [grammar] [interpretation] [Davidson]
Early in “Davidson on Intentionality and Externalism”, Hacker writes (p.542)In response to the current ‘internalist/externalist’… by Daniel Lindquist


May 15, 2008 03:20 at UNF Philosophy Blog
»No Elimination of UF?s Ph.D. ? Yet   [News & Notes] [General Interest] [Grad School]
This observation just in from Sabrina Jamil: Not sure how many are aware, but a revised version of the proposal has passed. Although the Ph.D. program was not eliminated, admissions to the program are… by Rico Vitz

May 15, 2008 03:12 at Nominally Yours
»Update
The week 7 lectures are up with filenames Pippin_W7L1.mp3 and Pippin_W7L2.mp3. Tomorrow I’m going to remove the link from the old post, so save it, memorize it, scratch it on a napkin, etc. I’ve some… by Currence

May 15, 2008 03:05 at Maverick Philosopher
»Lupu’s ‘Thin’ Manifesto and a Little on Objectual vs Substitutional Interpretation of Quantifiers
Peter Lupu helpfully suggests the following as individually necessary (though perhaps not jointly sufficient) planks in the ‘thin’ (’someist,’ ‘deflationary’) platform:… by William F. Vallicella

May 15, 2008 01:58 at The Space of Reasons
»Davidson on Weakness of Will   [Metaethics] [Davidson] [Philosophy of Action]
According to Davidson, some agent a acts incontinently in performing some action x i?: (D1) a does x intentionally; (D2) a believes there is an alternative… by AVERY ARCHER

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Mind and Cog.Sci. Group
May 15, 2008 23:27 at Mind Hacks
»The secret family life of a false memory
Thanks to Aaron and Frontal Cortex for simultaneously alerting us to this fantastic animation that recounts a charming real life case of a false memory. Families are like incubators for false memories… by vaughan

»Orgasm and brain
Scientific American Mind tackles the neuroscience of orgasm in a feature article which has just been released online. One… by vaughan

»Undercover genetics and the function of the brain
Science News has an article on one of the most important future topics in neuroscience - epigenetics, the science of how… by vaughan


May 15, 2008 19:25 at The Splintered Mind
»The Hermeneutic Alternative (by guest blogger Bryan Van Norden)   [metaphilosophy] [Bryan Van Norden]
Philosophy begins in wonder. — Aristotle Aristotle was wrong. Philosophy begins when a community of people encounter a problem that outstrips their current methods for problem-solving. For example,… by Eric Schwitzgebel

May 15, 2008 16:11 at Cognitive Daily
»How to make your eye feel like it’s closed, when it’s actually open   [Research]
This morning I went into the darkest room in our house (the kids’ bathroom), closed the door, and turned off the lights for 5 minutes. There was enough light coming in through the crack in the door that…

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Philosophy & Theology Group
May 15, 2008 22:17 at Siris
»Wherein I Am a Bit More Rude than I Should Be
Eurozine has an article in which Barnes, Burnyeat, Stroud, and Geuss pontificate about philosophy (ht): Poems and aphorisms do not seem to me appropriate forms for carrying out philosophical work, even… by Brandon

»Drupal Without Scruple
I finally decided to get around to updating Houyhnhnm Land; and instead of just going WordPress as before, I decided to try… by Brandon


May 15, 2008 18:05 at Just Thomism
»No title   
We sometimes experience goodness as desirable, sometimes as a command or a law. This second aspect of goodness is revealed in conscience, in regret, in guilt, and in the peace that follows doing what we… by a thomist

May 15, 2008 11:59 at Trinities
»Linkage: Baptism in the NAME (Dale)   [Linkage] [Theologians] [Bible] [Complaints]
Mmmm… baby soup - the delicious end to any traditional baptism. “Father, Son, Holy Spirit”? Or “Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier”? The editors of the flagship magazine of American… by Dale

Blogs in the group:(9):Blogio Ex Nihilo   Dangerous Idea   Dangerous Idea 2   Just Thomism   Siris   Summa Philosophiae   The Metaphysical Pluralist   The Prosblogion   Trinities   

 

Papers and Reviews
May 17, 2008 00:00 at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
»The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory - Amy Allen
by J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College

»Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences - Emily R. Grosholz
by Doug Jesseph, North Carolina State University

»Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representation - Eric Margolis, Stephen Laurence (eds.)
by Beth Preston, University of Georgia

»New Pragmatists - Cheryl Misak (ed.)
by Henry Jackman, York University

»Ricoeur and Lacan - Karl Simms
by David Pellauer, DePaul University


May 15, 2008 01:09 at Stanford Encyclopedia
»Weakness of Will
[New Entry by Sarah Stroud on May 14, 2008.] Julie chose b over a, even though she knew b was more expensive than a. There is nothing puzzling about Julie’s choice. Perhaps Julie was… by Sarah Stroud

»Modal Logic
[Revised entry by James Garson on May 13, 2008. Changes to: Main text] A modal is an expression (like ‘necessarily’ or… by James Garson

»The Turing Test
[Revised entry by Graham Oppy and David Dowe on May 13, 2008. Changes to: Bibliography] The phrase “The Turing Test” is… by Graham Oppy and David Dowe

»Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender
[New Entry by Mari Mikkola on May 12, 2008.] Feminism is said to be the movement to end women’s oppression (hooks 2000,… by Mari Mikkola

»Logic and Artificial Intelligence
[Revised entry by Richmond Thomason on May 9, 2008. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, Internet resources, notes.html]… by Richmond Thomason


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