Brian Leiter has started a thread for keeping track of the safety of friends and readers after the terrible bomb blasts this morning. So far everyone we know of seems to be safe, and we hope that’s truly the case. I’ve closed comments here – any information you have should be sent to Brian Leiter’s site. There are more comments on the bombs at Crooked Timber here and here, and of course I fully agree with the sentiments behind both.

Posted by Brian Weatherson at 10:47 am

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I’ve seriously revised the pragmatics and epistemology paper that I posted earlier. Matthew McGrath pointed out many errors in the previous version. I can’t guarantee that all the errors are removed, but it’s certainly an improved version.

Can we do Without Pragmatic Encroachment

A wise person said to me the other day that there’s unlikely to be a theory of conditionals that pleases all of the people all of the time. This is true, but there could well be a theory of conditionals that pleases none of the people all of the time. In that spirit

Conditionals and Relativism

Posted by Brian Weatherson at 10:33 pm

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Luka Yovetich sent me a link to this article in the Washington Post about the costs of scepticism. The defendent was asked whether he would commit more crimes if he was released, and (to paraphrase) he said that he didn’t know because he didn’t have an answer to global scepticism. As they say on the interwebs, read the whole thing. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll recognise behaviour that previously you’d only seen in philosophical colleagues, etc.

Posted by Brian Weatherson at 4:11 pm

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In lieu of all the other things I should be doing, I rewrote the paper I drafted last year responding to John Hawthorne’s Why Humeans Are Out of Their Minds.

Humeans Aren’t Out of Their Minds

It’s now a model of concision, though I don’t think I sacrified anything of value from the older version.

Posted by Brian Weatherson at 7:16 pm

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Here’s a review I just drafted.

Review of Lewisian Themes

The bibliographic and biographic claims in the first paragraph are slightly more speculative than they sound. If anyone has information that I’m making a mistake of some kind then do please let me know!

Posted by Brian Weatherson at 11:19 pm

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