Neil Levy pointed out to me that Philosophical Studies prepublishes a lot of forthcoming papers. It was a little hard to fight through all the frames to find a direct link to the sites, but the it is available here. There’s also a similar site for Synthese here, but not as far as I can tell for other Kluwer journals.

There’s a lot of good stuff here. The highlights include (but are certainly not limited to):

• Beauty and the Bets, Christopher Hitchcock
• Truth, Reflection, and Hierarchies, Michael Glanzberg
• Tarski’s Staggering Existential Assumptions, V. McGee
• Archetypal Forms of Inference, I. L. Humberstone
• Logical Properties of Warrant, Michael Huemer
• The Limits of Self-Awareness, M.G.F. Martin
• Indiscriminability and the Phenomenal, Susanna Siegel
• The Obscure Object of Hallucination, Mark Johnston
• Hallucination, sense-data, and direct realism, David Hilbert

How I’m meant to keep up with any of this, let alone all of it, is beyond me.

The full list of papers follows:

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David Chalmers has updated his list of People with online papers in philosophy. Here’s the list of people who have been added.

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David Chalmers has updated his list of People with online papers in philosophy. Here’s the list of people who have been added.

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On the rental contract for the car Andy and I had in Bellingham, it said:

This car may not be used by anyone who has not signed the rental contract, nor by anyone who has consumed alcohol or drugs.

Which was too bad, since the only people who operated the car had consumed alcohol and drugs. Not immediately before using the car to be sure. (Or at least not in any significant quantity immediately before using the car.) Some people need to be a little clearer about their quantifier domain restrictors I expect.
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I’m starting to think my vagueness book may have to be scrapped. This would be a fairly big decision, since it’s the only book I can see myself writing any time in the near future, and people sometimes tell me books are important. (Although Ernie Sosa, Jamie Dreier and Steve Yablo all seem to be doing OK without books, and that’s just speaking about people from the immediate neighbourhood.)

There’s no one reason why it should be scrapped, but as a project it’s starting to look a bit disasterous. What follows is a quick outline of why it might join the kingdom of failed book projects.
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I’ve just got through reading (though not necessarily acting on) all my mail from while I was away. One of the paper ads I received was a flyer for The Review of Metaphysics. A large part of their advertising consisted in a list of the most famous articles they have published. They don’t include dates, though my impression is that most of them are from quite a while ago. (I think Gil Harman is the youngest of the forty-odd people whose contributions were highlighted.) Someone like me shouldn’t probably be criticising other people’s proof-reading, but I thought it was amusing that they attributed “On Being and Nothing” to Joe Bernardete.

I’ve just got through reading (though not necessarily acting on) all my mail from while I was away. One of the paper ads I received was a flyer for The Review of Metaphysics. A large part of their advertising consisted in a list of the most famous articles they have published. They don’t include dates, though my impression is that most of them are from quite a while ago. (I think Gil Harman is the youngest of the forty-odd people whose contributions were highlighted.) Someone like me shouldn’t probably be criticising other people’s proof-reading, but I thought it was amusing that they attributed “On Being and Nothing” to Joe Bernardete.

and much too tired to write anything of any detail. But the papers blog for the last week is done, and there’s dozens of papers online and literally hundreds of papers in journals appeared, so if you want some light reading there shouldn’t be any shortage.