At
David Chalmers’s suggestion, I’ve added a few philosophical directories to the
pages that are being tracked on the philosophy papers blog. The list of added
sites (which are the first sites not on Chalmers’s list of people with online
papers in philosophy to be added) is:

• Philosophers Imprint: http://www.umich.edu/~philos/Imprint/frameset.html?browse
• Notre Dame Philosophical
  Reviews: ndpr.icaap.org/recentreviews.html
• A Field Guide to Philosophy
  of Mind: host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/
• A Field Guide’s Book
  Symposia: host.uniroma3.it/progetti/kant/field/booksymp.html
• Sorites: http://www.sorites.org/comprehe.htm
• BEARS: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/bears/homepage.html
• What’s New at Stirling: http://www.stir.ac.uk/departments/arts/philosophy/cnw/what%27snew.htm
• Epistemological Research: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kak7409/EpistemologicalResearch.htm
• Online papers at NYU: http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/papers/
• Philosophy in the News (APA):
  http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/philnews/
• Keith DeRose’s Epistemology
  Page: pantheon.yale.edu/~kd47/e-page.htm
• What’s New at the Stanford
  Encyclopaedia: http://plato.stanford.edu/new.html
• New journals at Tanner
  Library, University of Michigan: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/philosophy/tanner/whats.html

The
last of these is not like the others, because many of its links will be to dead
tree publications, not to live electron publications. But it’s still a
worthwhile news source, so I’ve included it. (You can, after all, ignore what
it says, but I think it’s a pretty useful summary of what’s happening in the
dead tree journals.)

While
adding those pages I came across a few things that would have been mentioned in
the previous few days had I added these directories at the start of the year.

My
colleague Bernard Reginster has a very
favourable review of Brian Leiter’s book on Nietzche at Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews. (Quiz: Between Bernard’s favourable review, and my plug
of it, how many places will Brown rise in the next rankings?)

The Philadelphia
Inquirer had a report
on the APA. Most of the article reminded me of that old Woody Allen gag
about choosing between depression and destruction, but there was a very funny
line at the end.

This year, an anonymous comic posted “Top 10
Pieces of Advice for APA Job Candidates.” Some, like No. 8, were pure inside
baseball: “If Princeton interviews you and Saul Kripke makes an interesting
point, resist the temptation to ask, ‘Now is that your idea?’” (Kripke is considered one of the field’s living geniuses.)

No
comment.

And
the What’s New page at Stanford looks pretty impressive, if I do say so.

• Republicanism
  (Philip Pettit) [NEW: January 9, 2003]
• The
  Problem of the Many (Brian Weatherson) [NEW: January 9,
  2003]
• Qualia
  (Michael Tye) [REVISED: January 9, 2003]

If
nothing else, I keep fairly good company in cyberspace.