Ive posted the days changes to the philosophy papers blog. There
are seven changes, and three of them include (as best I can tell) new papers.
Ted Sider has
posted a new work in progress, a reply to Simon Keller and Michael Nelsons
paper on presentism and time travel. Keller and Nelson had argued that time
travel and presentism are consistent, contrary to much received wisdom. They
argue for this, in part, by showing how
to translate Lewiss theory of time travel into presentist terminology. Sider
objects to one part of the translation. He says that its important for Lewis
that personal time, time as it appears to the time traveller, deserves the
name time. Else, he claims, we dont really have time travel. And he claims
that on Keller and Nelsons translation, this is not the case. Its only a
short paper, so you should go read it rather than relying on my summary. The
original paper is online at the AJP site, if you have a password, but neither
Keller nor Nelson have a free copy available on their sites.
(The update report lists three other papers, but I think that
they were there previously, and they are just being reported because they are
part of a paragraph that changed, or something of the sort. Someone who has Teds
old page in cache, or who knows what changes were made, might like to correct
me on that.)
Keith
DeRose has two papers listed as being newly available, one on Assertion, Knowledge and Context,
which is a long defence of contextualism against rival explanations of the data
contextualism purports to explain. Sosa Safety Sensitivity and
Sceptical Hypotheses (try saying that six times swiftly) is a comparison
between Sosas responses to scepticism and DeRoses contextualist response.
(Again, Im not sure how new these are.
Again, if anyone wants to let me know exactly what
changes were made to DeRoses website in the last 24-48 hours, Id be much
appreciative. Im still trying to learn how to interpret these page change
reports.)
Yuri
Balashov has posted a paper
on laws of nature that appeared last year in the Southern Journal of
Philosophy.
The other changes do not, I believe, involve
posting new papers, though if thats not true, let me know.
And if I havent mentioned it before, my entry on The Problem of the
Many is now posted on the Stanford
Encyclopaedia.