Three new pages have been added to the papers blog recently.

Jean Nicod Institute has an extensive “online papers page”:http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/. I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to keep track of the additions, but there looks to be a lot of interesting stuff there.

“Russ Payne”:http://facweb.bcc.ctc.edu/wpayne/ from Bellevue Community College has several papers on metaphysics online. He also has an announcement for the “Northwest Philosophy Conference”:http://facweb.bcc.ctc.edu/wpayne/npcindex.htm to be held in October and featuring Jeff King and Michael Jubien (both to be formerly of UC Davis) as keynotes. It should be a lot of fun I’d imagine. I’m not sure if I’ll be going because, as much as I like philosophy conferences (especially in the northwest) I’m currently up to 8 invitations for the second half of 2004, and I can’t really go to all of them. But I do recommend checking out the northwest philosophy conference page.

John Gregg, a computer programmer/scientist from Boston, has an interesting page of “papers about consciousness”:http://home.comcast.net/~johnrgregg/. One of these days I’ll have to make a policy decision about when non-academic pages (i.e. pages by people whose paycheck doesn’t include the words ‘university’ or ‘college’ somewhere on it) should get listed on the papers blog. For now I’m running by seat-of-someone’s-pants judgments, and I hope it’s working out OK. I try not to place too much weight on things like what words are on one’s paychecks, but it’s easy to use academia as a kind of cheap filtering device. If you really need to hear about credentials though, John has written “a surprisingly accessible, entertaining and very reasonably priced “book “:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0780334264/ref=nosim/caoineorg-20 about Boolean algebra”, which is as much as I’ve ever done academically (if not more) I guess.