Sider has a draft of his logic book up on his website (all 367 pages).

John Basl has put together a list of philosophers using the micro-blogging service Twitter.

Schroeder discusses a problem with the fact that ethical theories apparently tell us, not only what we ought to do, but why we ought to do it.

Leiter on RAE results

More discussion on the open access issue from Richard Chappell

Raises the important issue about open access research.

Click through to the fifth photo [HT: Leiter] - I'm totally adding a fashion tag for this one.

Ichikawa's closing claim: It seems to me that if a well-supported theory has a counterintuitive consequence, it’s not the theory’s job to explain why people have the false intuition, beyond the minimal way: people are so constituted to think that p, but not-p, where not-p is the verdict of the theory. If the theorist wants to do some psychology and attempt to explain where the false intuition comes from, that’s great. But I think it’s often optional.

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

I don't know if 2009 will be the year, but it does seem like a major shift is on the horizon...