Off to Mayhem for the week, so no new posts here or on the papers blog until Thursday at the earliest – more likely Friday.

Until then, here’s a discussion topic that Albert Chan at USC suggested. What books/articles should every grad student have read before finishing grad school? My suggested answer is _None_. There’s nothing that is both compulsory for students in history of ethics and in contemporary formal semantics, for instance. Of course there are things that are compulsory _within_ sub-disciplines, but philosophy is now too diverse for there to be any required core readings.

I suspect few commentators will agree though…