Just a heads up. I now have all of the journals survey/data table combos posted. Head on over and submit a survey about your most recent journal submissions.

Which philosophical terms do you think do more to obscure than clarify?Some terms are ambiguous in ways that invite (unintentional) equivocation, e.g. 'autonomy' and 'intrinsic value'. While safely usable in some contexts, I think it's often preferable to replace these vague terms with whatever more precise understanding you have in mind.

Great post discussing the publishing dilemma for graduate students

guardian.co.uk
"I teach it to my undergraduates every year," Elinor Mason, a philosophy lecturer at Edinburgh University, says. "When I ask them at the end who has had ...

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short and sweet

Good discussion from Richard Chappell on the pros and cons of academic blogging. He argues that the pros outweigh the cons. I agree.

Littlejohn asks

Alex Rosenberg's "précis of an argument that naturalism forces upon us a very disillusioned 'take' on reality."

Challenges the claim that intuitions about genuine disagreement show anything about sameness of meanings of terms or sameness of concepts involved.

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