The “papers blog”:http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/Opp/Archives/002780.html is up and there’s a few things to note.

First, the links to the PhilSci Archive don’t seem to be working, but I think that’s a temporary server problem.

Second, we have the first of the APA Central papers, in this case “Robert Allen’s”:http://home.twmi.rr.com/robertallen/papers.html “comments on Noel Hendrickson’s”:http://home.twmi.rr.com/robertallen/fwe.doc paper on free will, posted. Since I won’t be at the Central, I hope there are many more such papers posted in the next week or so.

(Why won’t I be at the APA Central? Three reasons. First, I’m already going to too many conferences this semester. Second, the Cubbies do better in years I don’t go to Chicago, and I feel some sympathy for Cubs fans. Third, it would mean going to all three APA conferences in an academic year, and that seems excessive. To be sure I went to all three APA conferences in calendar year 2003, but that’s somehow different.)

Third, there are a large number of papers that aren’t new to the web but that I hadn’t noticed before. These include papers by “Gabriel Segal”:http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/staff/g_segal.html, “Brian Skyrms”:http://hypatia.ss.uci.edu/lps/home/fac-staff/faculty/skyrms/Skyrmspapers.html and “Kai Wehmeier”:http://members.cox.net/wehmeier/.

The “journals survey”:http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/homepages/weatherson/journals/Journals_Survey.htm is ticking along nicely with 152 votes in so far. Keep those votes coming in! I think Brown’s email service is working again, so my delays in responding to email are now _mostly_ due to laziness/inefficiency than technical problems. But at least I should get votes. (UPDATE: I spoke too soon. Now my outgoing mail server – run by Cox not Brown – is down, so I can’t send out messages. My excuses for not replying in a timely manner to mail just keep growing!)