Among the many ways in which the world
could change for the better, the following two seem sort of salient to this
site. First, it could be easier to link to papers available in online journals.
I suppose if we all collectively decided to only send papers to freely
available journals like The
Philosophers Imprint things might be a little easier in this respect.
Anyway, without this I can only tell you that among the many recent papers I’d
recommend are Hartry Field’s “Saving the Truth Schema From Paradox” in the
February Journal of Philosophical Logic,
and Graham Priest’s critical notice of the entire Lewis oeuvre (you think I’m
kidding, don’t you) in the June Noûs.

Secondly,
it would be nice if I was competent in putting up links. I was meant to deliver
this talk in Edinburgh last week. I managed to not pack a
copy of the talk, which is a rather impressive feat of poor packing I must say.
Anyway, I wasn’t particularly worried about this, because I thought I had
linked to it in the previous post. Sad to say, the link was broken, though I do
hope it’s now fixed. I did get a copy of the paper back from a different source
about 2 hours before I was meant to give it, but by that stage I’d quickly
rewritten the whole thing (sometimes it pays to be a quantity-based rather than
quality-based philosopher) and gave the rewritten version instead. I don’t
think it was a complete disaster, but it would have been nice to have been a
bit more competent with postings and avoided the whole thing. I did discover
that it’s more fun writing in Scottish bars than in American bars, but I think
I could have done with merely having a
priori knowledge of that particular proposition.