The “papers blog”:http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/Opp/Archives/002775.html is up, with two philosophy of language papers!

I had to read this sentence (fragment) from the abstract for “Keith DeRose’s new contextualism paper”:http://pantheon.yale.edu/~kd47/OLB.pdf a few times to make sure I got it.

bq. I like to think this paper contains significant enough advances in the argument that it is in important respects the state of the art — that anyone who wants to be well-informed about the debate but who doesn’t read this just won’t be up on the contextualist side of the debate.

I was hoping a state of the art piece would be slightly different, and that anyone who _did_ read it _would_ be up on the contextualist side of the debate. (‘Up on’ doesn’t quite sound right there. Is it negative polarity?)

I still haven’t received all my overnight mail, so I don’t know how many people have voted in the “journals survey”:http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/homepages/weatherson/journals/Journals_Survey.htm. It’s at least 127. You can make it at least 128.