Scott Soames discusses Frege's and Russell's (confused) attempts to solve the problem he calls "the unity of the proposition". He then attempts to get at the heart of the problem, and sketch a solution. This paper was especially interesting for me because (i) I had to read it for class, and (ii) Soames's solution is very similar to a solution I developed in response to a problem for platonism in the philosophy of mathematics.

New paper by Mark Schroeder expanding on chapter seven of Slaves of the Passions. To be presented at the Madison Metaethics workshop in 3 weeks.

Appiah's 2007 talk on Experimental Philosophy

Fitelson and Thomason argue, in a nice short paper, that a Bayesian account of scientific evidence cannot ignore implausible hypotheses if it is to be an adequate theory of scientific reasoning.

Warning: There is a some math in the paper.

[Richard Chappell, draft.] I claim that rule by the majority is not sufficient to qualify as rule by the people. This raises the question: what more is required? Rule by *all* the people is one obvious, if rather stringent, suggestion. Another intriguing possibility is that 'the people' in general may – in the right conditions – comprise a corporate agent who rules.

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

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

Really exciting new work by Niko Kolodny and John MacFarlane.

[Author: David Etlin; PDF] In his well-known paper, "A Counterexample to Modus Ponens," McGee presented a set of examples that appear to indicate that modus ponens does not hold as a valid rule for all natural language conditionals. Etlin considers several common responses to this, arguing that they fail, and suggests that the examples identify a distinction between indicative and subjunctive conditionals.

Depending on how you choose to read it, Tim Williamson either scolds philosophers or gives them a motivational speech.