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July 30th, 2009

Kevin Timpe – Truthmaking and Sourcehood

I just posted a new video over at Young Philosophers. It’s Kevin Timpe’s research talk – “Truthmaking and Sourcehood” (link […]

June 12th, 2009

The Concept of Intentional Action

Joshua Knobe has run a series of experiments that suggest that our intuitions about whether or not an action was […]

May 12th, 2009

A Road to Skepticism

I’ve been on a David Lewis kick recently. Here’s more. David Lewis considers two different epistemic objections to Lewisian Modal […]

May 6th, 2009

Modal Realism and Drowning Children

UPDATE: I think Mike Almeida is right. The response I lay out won’t work. Suppose you have the option of […]

April 30th, 2009

David Lewis on The Number of Functional Roles

In On the Plurality of Worlds David Lewis resists an objection to his view by appealing to functionalism. The problem […]

April 14th, 2009

Ted Sider a Nihilist?

The word on Twitter that Ted Sider is now a mereological nihilist (See here and here). Evidently, he defended this […]

February 22nd, 2009

Simon Reads Naming and Necessity

For those of you who subscribe to my blog, sorry about all of those test posts. I was trying to […]

August 28th, 2008

Death and Vagueness

Consider the following theses. (A) For any person P, P exists iff P is alive. (B) For any person P, […]

August 24th, 2008

Seeing in Four Dimensions

Attention metaphysicians and philosophers interested in the four-dimensionalist/three-dimensionalist debate. A few mathematicians have created some videos that are designed to […]

August 21st, 2008

Presentism: Through Thick and Thin

The journal mashups are still churning out interesting stuff. This article came up. Here’s the abstract. Presentism: Through Thick and […]