The “papers blog”:http://opp.weatherson.org has been updated. Somehow yesterday’s entry, which I clearly and distinctly remember writing, didn’t get posted, so I’ve rewritten it as best I can and posted it under yesterday’s date. If I’ve started having hallucinations about writing entries to the papers blog, that’s a _very_ worrying sign. That kind of thing shouldn’t happen until at least the 10th week of semester, not the 3rd.

And I somehow left off (both entries) the most interesting paper I’ve read online recently, Yael Sharvit’s

bq. “Free Indirect Discourse and ‘De Re Pronouns'”:http://web.uconn.edu/sharvit/sharvit-salt14.pdf

There is a lot of evidence that in free indirect discourse either names or pronouns (or both) are not directly referential. It is a little disturbing to me that given all the attention paid by philosophers to the question of whether names and pronouns are directly referential in standard indirect discourse, philosophers (this one included) have paid so little attention to free indirect discourse, particularly since this data may bear on the original questions philosophers were asking.