The biggest ever papers blog entry contains a couple of exciting bits of news.

First, the special issue in honour of David Lewis of the AJP is now out. I would have loved to have a paper in there, but I didn’t think I had anything remotely worthy to submit. It’s not like a mediocre paper would have been a particularly good way to honour David. Fortunately, lots of people did have worthy papers, and it looks like being one of the best issues of any journal for years, as one would hope for such a volume.

This being my blog, I can’t help make one self-centred remark though. For some reason on the Ingenta page for the journal, a few of the articles (Lewis’s, Egan’s, Paul’s and Taylor’s) are listed along with their acknowledgements. So I know that I’m thanked in at least two of the papers. So it’s nice to have some presence in such a collection.

Second, Alva Noë has put the manuscript of his forthcoming book, Action in Perception online on his site. Lots of people post preprints of papers, but seeing a whole book online, especially from such a distinguished philosopher, was new for me.