Yet another post inspired by conversations with John Hawthorne. I think on this case some of his comments were in turn inspired by conversations with Tim Williamson. (It should be obvious where that comes in.) I also had several discussions at Bellingham about this, most productively with Daniel Nolan and Eleanor Mason. And Fred Feldman’s paper (and Liz Harman’s comments on it) were also helpful. After all that, maybe one or two of the ideas are mine. It’s all in a long dialogue because I don’t want to go on record endorsing any one of these positions. But it should be clear where my sympathies lie. A lot of the discussion turns on cases discussed by Frank Jackson in his 1991 paper, “Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection.”

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Yet another post inspired by conversations with John Hawthorne. I think on this case some of his comments were in turn inspired by conversations with Tim Williamson. (It should be obvious where that comes in.) I also had several discussions at Bellingham about this, most productively with Daniel Nolan and Eleanor Mason. And Fred Feldman’s paper (and Liz Harman’s comments on it) were also helpful. After all that, maybe one or two of the ideas are mine. It’s all in a long dialogue because I don’t want to go on record endorsing any one of these positions. But it should be clear where my sympathies lie. A lot of the discussion turns on cases discussed by Frank Jackson in his 1991 paper, “Decision-Theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection.”

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The “papers blog”:http://opp.weatherson.org is up for the day.

I get a lot of requests to add new sites to the pages tracked list. One of the most recent was from the journal “ElectroNeurobiology”:http://electroneubio.secyt.gov.ar/general.htm. Now there are a couple of issues to note here. First, its contents are more along the lines of what we think of as neurology than philosophy, though obviously there are cross-over issues of interest, especially since they are particularly interested in issues to do with consciousness. Second, a lot of the papers are in Spanish. So I’m not sure how many papers from there will be philosophical enough, and English enough(!), to track on the blog. But it might be of interest to a lot of readers, hence the link.

The “new edition of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy”:http://www3.oup.co.uk/ajphil/hdb/Volume_82/Issue_03/ is out, and the leadoff article is by _me_! There look to be lots of other (and more) interesting papers in the volume.

I’ve updated the “Powerpoint slides”:http://brian.weatherson.org/fastcap.ppt for my talk at Syracuse this Saturday. The slides are bearing less and less resemblance to the posted paper, but I’ll be talking off the slides, not the paper.

A few people have asked me to repost the data from the Journals Survey I took earlier this year. The data got a little lost when TAR moved here from Brown.edu. So here are the data.

bq. “Results”:http://brian.weatherson.org/journals/Journals_Survey.htm
“Raw Votes”:http://brian.weatherson.org/journals/journals-rawvotes.htm
“Demographics”:http://brian.weatherson.org/journals/journal_demo.htm

Yesterday was the first day this blog crossed the 1000 unique visitors mark for a day. In the overall bloggy scheme of things that’s pretty small news, but it seemed cause for small celebration here. Of course the progress of the Australian Olympic team has generated lots of causes for celebration this week, so the champagne supplies are running low, but one more celebration can’t hurt!

A philosophy meta-blog (to steal Brian Leiter’s phrase) “Philosophers’ Carnival”:http://philosophycarnival.blogspot.com/ has just opened up and is looking for both readers and contributors.

A philosophy meta-blog (to steal Brian Leiter’s phrase) “Philosophers’ Carnival”:http://philosophycarnival.blogspot.com/ has just opened up and is looking for both readers and contributors.

I might not have brilliant computer access tomorrow, so I’ve posted tomorrow’s “papers blog”:http://opp.weatherson.org tonight. It’s missing a couple of new links I’ve got sent that will be covered in depth in Wednesday’s entry.