As a follow up of sorts to the previous post, I was wondering what other lists of “best papers in the last decade” would be fun to discuss. I like lists and I like arguments, and I especially like arguments about lists, so all I’d have to do is pick the right sub-discipline and some entertainment could ensue. Which area though?

Epistemology could be worthwhile, though I suspect there would be quite a bit of agreement on what the most significant papers have been. Metaphysics would be interesting, though if I was drawing up the starting list it might be a little bit dominated by Lewis and Sider papers. What could really be _fun_ is philosophy of language. There’s just enough disagreement about the quality and importance of various pieces that have appeared recently to get a fun discussion going. So maybe I’ll start this up sometime, once I get the nerve to say what _I_ think have been the most significant contributions in recent times.