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February 20th, 2008

More on Philosophy Journals

Jonathan Ichikawa justed posted about the lengthy journal review process here.I feel his pain. Today (and, I kid you not, […]

February 18th, 2008

Nominalism and Properties – Part Two

In a recent post, I led up to the problem sentence for Nominalism. (3) Red resembles Orange more than Square-ness. […]

February 17th, 2008

Nominalism About Properties – Part One

One version of nominalism holds that properties just are sets of things. There is no abstract universal red-ness. There just […]

February 16th, 2008

Personal Identity and Identical Twins

When I teach personal identity in Intro and Metaphysics, I often have a student suggest that what it takes to […]

February 14th, 2008

Counterfactuals With Impossible Antecedents

A common view in philosophy is that counterfactual conditionals with impossible antecedents are all vacuously true. But I’m very worried […]

February 11th, 2008

Philosophy Tenure Track Hires

For the past few years, Leiter has put up a post so people can announce new tenure-track hires in the […]

February 11th, 2008

Begging the Question

This starts off as what purports to be a discussion of the misuse of the expression “begging the question”… Half […]

February 4th, 2008

An Argument Against Materialism

A lot of materialists will admit that there are some kinds of entities that are a little more difficult to […]

January 28th, 2008

Qtrax and My Metaethics Example

Great! I had a perfectly good example involving amoral judgements that almost ALL of my students could relate to – […]

January 16th, 2008

Confirmation of A Betrand Russell Skeptical Scenario?

One possible skeptical scenario is Russell’s 5 minute hypothesis. This is from The Analysis of Mind… In investigating memory-beliefs, there […]