The papers blog is running

The papers blog is running late, but I have put the resistance paper up in PDF form. The links, sadly, don’t seem to be working – I think it’s how I built the PDF. And all the flaws from the HTML version (missing sections, poor writing, unfunny jokes, invalid arguments, false conclusions etc) are retained. (So is the one deliberate spelling error, but that’s a feature not a bug. Not a very exciting feature, but a feature.)

I didn’t mention it the first time it came up, but Matti Eklund’s paper on What Vagueness Consists In is well worth reading. Matti has very different views to mine on vagueness. He thinks it would be very bad for a theory of vagueness if it ended up saying Quinean indeterminacy is a kind of vagueness, I think it would be a very bad thing to have to posit many different kinds of indeterminacy to deal with Quine’s cases and Kripkenstein’s cases and Field’s cases and the familiar Sorites cases. But I suspect his views on this matter are more popular (and more convincingly defended) than mine.