Jonathan Ichikawa justed posted about the lengthy journal review process here.I feel his pain. Today (and, I kid you not, […]
In a recent post, I led up to the problem sentence for Nominalism. (3) Red resembles Orange more than Square-ness. […]
One version of nominalism holds that properties just are sets of things. There is no abstract universal red-ness. There just […]
When I teach personal identity in Intro and Metaphysics, I often have a student suggest that what it takes to […]
A common view in philosophy is that counterfactual conditionals with impossible antecedents are all vacuously true. But I’m very worried […]
For the past few years, Leiter has put up a post so people can announce new tenure-track hires in the […]
This starts off as what purports to be a discussion of the misuse of the expression “begging the question”… Half […]
A lot of materialists will admit that there are some kinds of entities that are a little more difficult to […]
Great! I had a perfectly good example involving amoral judgements that almost ALL of my students could relate to – […]
One possible skeptical scenario is Russell’s 5 minute hypothesis. This is from The Analysis of Mind… In investigating memory-beliefs, there […]