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.)
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
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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CT: Grading Medical Students and Grade Inflation
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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Leiter Reports: Applying Twice to the Same Programs?
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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Decision Theory Notes: TAR
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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On Taking Lives
This post deals with issues of personhood, intuitions, and reflective equilibrium. It's an interesting exchange worth the look.
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philosophy bites: Barry Smith on Neuroscience
Barry Smith on recent developments in Neuroscience and what these mean for phil. mind.
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Bell's Inequality
At PEA Soup, Josh Knobe posts: "The philosopher Kristen Bell has discovered a puzzling new asymmetry which has come to be known affectionately as 'Bell's Inequality.' Probably the best way to explain the effect she uncovered is just to describe her original experiment."
The experiment, and the subsequent comments that seek to explain the observed effect, are both interesting.
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Spiritual Disciplines and Possible Worlds
A reflection attempting to understand the Christian notion of "spiritual disciples" by utilizing some basic tools of "possible worlds" semantics.
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The Philosophical Method
Discusses the possibility 'that philosophy is distinguished from other endeavors by the method that it adopts'. There's plenty of room for discussion in the comments.
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The Early Modern Philosophy Curriculum - PEA Soup
This post asks if in teaching modern philosophy to undergrads we should stop focusing on M&E and start focusing on the ethical and socio-political debates because these debates are largely still relevant and more interesting to undergrads. I assume this will agitate some modern philosophers. Bonus: A nice comment is already there to kick things off...
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Peter Singer: Money! The root of all evil? (editorial)
Peter Singer talks about some of the psychological studies on money and happiness.
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A quote from the story: "I'll try then to make the secular case: that the human-centered values and rights which we see today as universal, eternal, and even self-evident have actually grown out of our recent past - and were influenced by how we did science."
This blog is widely read by scientists and science minded people. I often think that it would do some good to have lots of careful philosophers reading the blog and commenting...You'll see why when you read the post.
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The Olympics and Collapsing Counterfactuals
This post applies Thomas Flint's notion of "collapsing counterfactuals" to a survey stating that the average American would trade 10 years of their life for an Olympic gold medal. The conclusion is that this would not be a very good deal for at least one particular American, as it would entail his nonexistence.
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Phil. Lexicon: diversion or instrument of hegemony? (Hellie@Leiter)
Hellie asks whether the philosophical lexicon has the potential to marginalize good philosophers because it can be used as a guide to the inner circle of philosophy but the content tends to be unbalanced.
The comments could be good.
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Playing "Fast and Loose" with Terms
Explores and defines the "loose" use of terms within philosophical methodology.
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Investigating free will itself or the concept of free will?
Discussion about the relevance of (experimental) conceptual analysis of folk concepts to philosophical issues like free will.
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Dan Bonevac's "Reflection Without Equilibrium"
Addresses one of Bonevac's arguments against Rawls' version of reflective equilibrium.
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