Ross discusses, and rejects, views which attempt to undermine the importance of ethical questions. Interestingly, Ross argues that, even if we have no reason to disbelieve these views, we still have reason to reject them.

Very nice, short bio of Roderick Chisholm. Makes me even more sad that I never had a chance to meet him.

George Mavrodes gives an interesting review of a book of atheist testimonies, including an unfinished essay by the late David Lewis on Hell. Also discusses the Abraham-(not)-sacrificing-Isaac story, and Feldman's piece on religious disagreements.

From Certain Doubts; here is the abstract:
"Infinitists argue that their view outshines foundationalism because infinitism can, whereas foundationalism cannot, explain two of epistemic justification’s crucial features: it comes in degrees and it can be complete. I present four different ways that foundationalists could make sense of those two features of justification, thereby undermining the case for infinitism."

This paper expands upon the discussion of the paradox of hallucination in 'Factive phenomenal characters. I explore similarities and differences between hallucination, inversion, and singularity. The central point is to build a theory of phenomenal concepts congenial to "broad" phenomenality, modifying Chalmers's approach in 'The content and epistemology of phenomenal belief' by incorporating two sorts of cognitive imperfection: imprecision, and error.

New paper by Stephen Finlay. To be presented at MEW 2008.

I address an intuition commonly endorsed by metaphysicians, that there must be a fundamental layer
of reality, i.e., that chains of ontological dependence must terminate: there cannot be turtles all the
way down. I discuss applications of this intuition with reference to Bradley’s regress, composition,
realism about the mental and the cosmological argument. I discuss some arguments for the intui-
tion, but argue that they are unconvincing.

Philosophical work on testimony has flourished in recent years. Testimony roughly involves a source affirrming or stating something in an attempt to transfer information to one or more persons. It is often said that the topic of testimony has been neglected throughout most of the history of philosophy...

Given reader's interest in Plantinga's arguments concerning the relationship between evolution and naturalism, I thought this fairly recently posted paper by Sober might be of interest. He discusses the logical and evidential relationship between evolutionary theory and particular metaphysical claims about supernatural entities.