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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

http://www-rcf.usc.edu

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

http://fleetwood.baylor.edu

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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TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN: REGRESS, PRIORITY AND FUNDAMENTALITY

http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk

I address an intuition commonly endorsed by metaphysicians, that there must be a fundamental layer
of reality, i.e., that chains of ontological dependence must terminate: there cannot be turtles all the
way down. I discuss applications of this intuition with reference to Bradley’s regress, composition,
realism about the mental and the cosmological argument. I discuss some arguments for the intui-
tion, but argue that they are unconvincing.

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Augustine on testimony

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Philosophical work on testimony has flourished in recent years. Testimony roughly involves a source affirrming or stating something in an attempt to transfer information to one or more persons. It is often said that the topic of testimony has been neglected throughout most of the history of philosophy...

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Evolution Without Naturalism - Sober

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Given reader's interest in Plantinga's arguments concerning the relationship between evolution and naturalism, I thought this fairly recently posted paper by Sober might be of interest. He discusses the logical and evidential relationship between evolutionary theory and particular metaphysical claims about supernatural entities.

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ifs and oughts

http://johnmacfarlane.net

Really exciting new work by Niko Kolodny and John MacFarlane.

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Craziness and Metasemantics

http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk

John Hawthorne discusses a problem that I had never really thought about (not that he's the first to discuss it). How do we rule out crazy interpretations of our utterances, that nevertheless come out true?

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Duns Scotus on the Concept of the Univocity of Being

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