If, like me, you were busy during June and so didn’t read the “papers blog”:http://opp.weatherson.org every day, you may have missed some interesting new papers from “Timothy Williamson”:http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Esfop0009/. There are a couple of links, and amusing quotes from early pages, below the fold.
“Philosophical Intuitions and Scepticism about Judgement”:http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Esfop0009/files/intuit3.pdf
bq. I once heard a professional philosopher argue that persons are not their brains by saying that he had an intuition that he weighed more than three pounds. Surely there are better ways of weighing oneself than by intuition.
“Armchair Philosophy, Metaphysical Modality and Counterfactual Thinking”:http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Esfop0009/files/aristotle.rtf.doc
bq. Few contemporary philosophers have the nerve to be crude rationalists. Given the absence of a substantial body of agreed results in philosophy, crude rationalism is not easy to maintain. Many contemporary philosophers have some sympathy for crude empiricism, particularly when it goes under the more acceptable name of naturalism. However, that sympathy sometimes has little effect on their philosophical practice: they philosophize in the grand old manner, merely adding naturalism to their list of a priori commitments.
“Knowledge, Context and the Agents Point of View”:http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Esfop0009/preyer.pdf
bq. Contextualism is relativism tamed.