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Indeterminate Truthmaking

http://metaphysicalvalues.blogspot.com

If some claim is indeterminately true, then either there is something that makes that claim indeterminately true or there is not. If there is something that makes the claim indeterminately true, then what kind of thing is this indeterminate truth maker? Ross Cameron has some ideas.

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2008 Web of Beliefs (@ Philosophy, Etc.)

http://www.philosophyetc.net

This is a great idea. Richard gives us a nice concise summary of his blogging in 2008.

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How to Cheat on a Term Paper: Ten Helpful Hints

http://phdwithninekids.blogspot.com

Kalynne Pudner just brought this post to my attention. Pretty funny. The last few tips are my favorite.

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Three Kinds of Justification - Three Kinds of Closure

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Interesting post over at Certain Doubts by Ralph Wedgwood

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CT: Grading Medical Students and Grade Inflation

http://crookedtimber.org

Harry Brighouse has a great post about the purpose of grades in the academic institution and a discussion of whether there is a case to be made for grade inflation over the past few decades.

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fragments of consciousness: Postdocs at ANU

http://fragments.consc.net

These post-docs will not be in JFP!

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Leiter Reports: Applying Twice to the Same Programs?

http://leiterreports.typepad.com

An undergrad asks about applying twice to the same grad school in consecutive years. Comments seem torn about whether it matters or not.

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To Continue with Continuity

http://www.metaphysica.de

Standard math and logic derives from the insight (of Cantor) that simple infinities might be actual infinities, for all we know, but no less possible epistemically is the similarly Realistic metaphysical possibility that simple infinities are indefinitely extensible. That possibility coheres well with the (ancient Indian) idea of the number of points in a line of points being 1/0. This 2005 paper reintroduces that idea (in a more Cantorian style, for ease of philosophical comparison).

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Official Leiter Reports Presidential Poll

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funny

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The Error in the Error Theory - Stephen Finlay

http://www-rcf.usc.edu

Finaly points to two claims of a moral error theory: (1) that moral judgments presuppose that moral value has absolute authority (we think we are making absolutely true claims when we make moral judgments), and (2) that this presupposition is false. Finlay accepts (2), but denies that (1) is the best explanation of moral practices.

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Get Fuzzy - Cat Philosophers

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Comic strip some lesser known cat philosophers.

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Evil Smells like a Fart

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Interesting synopsis of an experiment that Martha Nussbaum appealed to in order to argue that feelings of disgust-responses do not reliably track whether or not something is immoral.

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Arche Philosophical Methodology Conference

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk

Looks like a great conference being organized by Jonathan Ichikawa

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Decision Theory Notes: TAR

http://tar.weatherson.org

Weatherson has posted detailed notes from an upper level decision theory course. I haven't looked through them in any detail but I love when philosophers do this (Strevens notes on confirmation theory are great).

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The Corrupter of Youth | The American Prospect

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Review of Rorty biography

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Right Again: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker

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Review of Mill biography

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Coin Toss Makes Jacksonville Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life

http://www.theonion.com

This is a great Onion TV feature. Premise of the story: Jacksonville Jaguar captain thinks about the randomness of the coin toss and has an existential crisis. He then convinces his coach that life has no meaning. The coach convinces the rest of the ream that life has no meaning, and then they all go off and lock themselves in the locker room.

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On Taking Lives

http://prosblogion.ektopos.com

This post deals with issues of personhood, intuitions, and reflective equilibrium. It's an interesting exchange worth the look.

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Is Morality Natural? - Newsweek

http://www.newsweek.com

This article looks like it might be interesting. I don't have time to read it all now, but it seems to connect up with some of the X-Phi that is so popular right now.

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Locke's Anticipation of Kripke

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This is an old article by Mackie, citing some passages from Locke's Essay which seem to anticipate some things Kripke says about natural kind terms in Naming and Necessity. Locke, it seems, ends up rejecting what Kripke will eventually say about natural kind terms.

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