I just got some awesome news this morning. My paper, “Three Millian Ways to Resolve Open Questions” was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.

Another reason I’m particularly excited about this is that JESP is an open-access journal! I hear they move pretty quickly through the whole process, so I expect that I’ll be able to link to the final version soon. For now, here’s the abstract.

Three Millian Ways to Resolve Open Questions
Abstract
Millianism is a thesis in philosophy of language that the meaning of a proper name is simply its referent. Millianism faces certain puzzles called Frege’s Puzzles. Some Millians defend the view by appealing to a metaphysics of belief that involves Ways of Believing. In the first part of this paper, I argue that ethical naturalists can adopt this Millian strategy to resist Moore’s Open Question argument. While this strategy of responding to the Open Question Argument has already appeared in the literature, I show that the Millian strategy can be easily extended to other versions of the Open Question Argument that are alleged to be stronger than the original formulation. The allegedly stronger versions of the Open Question Argument are not straightforwardly Frege’s Puzzles, but they still have analogue versions that have been presented against Millianism. What the Ways Millian can say against those analogue versions can easily be applied to these other versions of the Open Question Argument.

9 Responses to “Open Question Paper Accepted for Publication!”

1. 

   Boone

   March 2, 2009 at 10:59 am

   Great news! Congratulations!

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   Josh Smith

   March 2, 2009 at 2:46 pm

   Congratulations are definitely in order! I’ve been lurking here for some time (and have greatly enjoyed it, by the way), but there’s no reason to lurk through this. Looking forward to the link to the final version.

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3. 

   Kevin Timpe

   March 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm

   Another “congratulations!” You’re having a good year!

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4. 

   Trent

   March 2, 2009 at 4:17 pm

   Way to go dude!

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5. 

   Clayton

   March 3, 2009 at 10:09 am

   Congratulations! JESP is such a fantastically run outfit I wish I did more ethics papers that I could send to them.

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6. 

   Todd Long

   March 3, 2009 at 2:25 pm

   Good job, Mandy.

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7. 

   Andrew Cullison

   March 3, 2009 at 4:18 pm

   Thanks everyone. Also I concur with Clayton. JESP is very well run, and I’m not just saying that because they accepted my paper.

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8. 

   Clayton

   March 3, 2009 at 5:39 pm

   I am.

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9. 

   Clayton

   March 3, 2009 at 5:48 pm

   (That wasn’t said in earnest.)

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