List
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 18th, 2008

New Philosophers’ Carnival

Is here… (It looks like there is some emphasis on philosophical humor…)

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 13th, 2008

What Harvard Did, What Harvard Should Do

Editing and refereeing for journals is a thank-less job that you don’t get paid for. Editors and referees do this […]

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 8th, 2008

College Opportunity and Affordability Act = Network Filtering

Colleges are going to have to start screening their networks to try and curb illegal file sharing and downloading. I […]