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Doris & Prinz Review Appiah's Experiments in Ethics

http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com

John Doris and Jesse Prinz have a nice review of Anthony Appiah's book Experiments in Ethics over at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

The review focuses on Appiah's discussion of character and of ethical intuitions and then concludes with a suggestion that 'empirical work demands a reconstruction of morality.'

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Open access papers by L. B. Puntel

http://www.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de

L. B. Puntel is known for his magnum opus 'structure and being' (2006). Here are some papers in English and German that can be regarded as preliminary research for 'structure and being'.

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Soames-The Gap Between Meaning and Assertion

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Soames sketches a `least common denominator' view of meaning, on which what is we literally assert can vary pretty widely from what our words literally mean. Good paper.

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Contingent A Priori Knowledge

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John Turri's new paper, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Turri argues for the existence of a priori knowledge of propositions which neither are nor appear to be necessarily true.

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Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Piraha˜

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Any scientifically-minded Phil. of Language might want to take a look at this. Daniel Everett, a field linguist, argues that at least one natural language lacks recursion (among many other things), thus undermining Chomsky's Universal Grammar.

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William Lycan--Giving Dualism its Due

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And you thought substance dualism was buried decades ago. Lycan, renowned physicalist, is here to say that no convincing argument against substance dualism has ever been made. Forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Get it while its hot.

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Logic for Philosophers - Sider

http://tedsider.org

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

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Cudworth and Normative Explanations - Mark Schroeder

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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.

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Rejecting Ethical Deflationism - Jacob Ross

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Ross discusses, and rejects, views which attempt to undermine the importance of ethical questions. Interestingly, Ross argues that, even if we have no reason to disbelieve these views, we still have reason to reject them.

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Short Chisholm Bio

http://philosophy.csusb.edu

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

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Hell and Vagueness - Sider

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A fun paper by Ted Sider arguing, from vagueness, that a certain conception of Hell is inconsistent with attributes that God is traditionally thought to have.

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Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life

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George Mavrodes gives an interesting review of a book of atheist testimonies, including an unfinished essay by the late David Lewis on Hell. Also discusses the Abraham-(not)-sacrificing-Isaac story, and Feldman's piece on religious disagreements.

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The Unity of the Proposition - Soames

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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.

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Foundationalism for modest infinitists

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From Certain Doubts; here is the abstract:
"Infinitists argue that their view outshines foundationalism because infinitism can, whereas foundationalism cannot, explain two of epistemic justification’s crucial features: it comes in degrees and it can be complete. I present four different ways that foundationalists could make sense of those two features of justification, thereby undermining the case for infinitism."

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Appiah's APA Presidential Address

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Appiah's 2007 talk on Experimental Philosophy

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Discrimination and phenomenality

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This paper expands upon the discussion of the paradox of hallucination in 'Factive phenomenal characters. I explore similarities and differences between hallucination, inversion, and singularity. The central point is to build a theory of phenomenal concepts congenial to "broad" phenomenality, modifying Chalmers's approach in 'The content and epistemology of phenomenal belief' by incorporating two sorts of cognitive imperfection: imprecision, and error.

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how objectivity matters

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New paper by David Enoch to be presented at MEW 2008.

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normativity, necessity, and tense

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

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value and the right kind of reason

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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.

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Dancy on Acting for the Right Reasons (Congrats to Errol Lord)

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Congratulations to one of our regular sympoze users - Errol Lord. His paper was accetped to the "Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy"

(And kudos for choosing an open access publication...)

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