Taking Philosophy Seriously

I only just saw the acknowledgments page on Tamar Gendler and John Hawthorne’s Fake Barns paper.

For comments and encouragement, we are grateful to Stewart Cohen and Alvin Goldman. Special thanks are due to Agent Brown (Brian Weatherson) and Agent Causation (Jonathan Schaffer), who provided careful comments on an earlier draft of this memo.

If people keep writing like that I’m going to end up writing philosophy papers with nothing but (attempted) jokes in them. Oh wait, perhaps I already did. On the other hand I haven’t come up with a pun quite like Agent Causation yet, so maybe I need to keep trying.