“Brian Leiter”:http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/london_friends_.html has started a thread for keeping track of the safety of friends and readers after the terrible bomb blasts this morning. So far everyone we know of seems to be safe, and we hope that’s truly the case. I’ve closed comments here – any information you have should be sent to “Brian Leiter’s site”:http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/07/london_friends_.html. There are more comments on the bombs at Crooked Timber “here”:http://crookedtimber.org/2005/07/07/london-explosions/ and “here”:http://crookedtimber.org/2005/07/07/london-pride/, and of course I fully agree with the sentiments behind both.

I’ve seriously revised the pragmatics and epistemology paper that I posted earlier. Matthew McGrath pointed out _many_ errors in the previous version. I can’t guarantee that all the errors are removed, but it’s certainly an _improved_ version.

bq. “Can we do Without Pragmatic Encroachment”:http://brian.weatherson.org/cwdwpe.pdf

A wise person said to me the other day that there’s unlikely to be a theory of conditionals that pleases all of the people all of the time. This is true, but there could well be a theory of conditionals that pleases _none_ of the people all of the time. In that spirit

bq. “Conditionals and Relativism”:http://brian.weatherson.org/car.pdf

Luka Yovetich sent me a link to “this article in the Washington Post”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001743.html about the costs of scepticism. The defendent was asked whether he would commit more crimes if he was released, and (to paraphrase) he said that he didn’t know because he didn’t have an answer to global scepticism. As they say on the interwebs, read the whole thing. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll recognise behaviour that previously you’d only seen in philosophical colleagues, etc.

Luka Yovetich sent me a link to “this article in the Washington Post”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001743.html about the costs of scepticism. The defendent was asked whether he would commit more crimes if he was released, and (to paraphrase) he said that he didn’t know because he didn’t have an answer to global scepticism. As they say on the interwebs, read the whole thing. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll recognise behaviour that previously you’d only seen in philosophical colleagues, etc.

In lieu of all the other things I should be doing, I rewrote the paper I drafted last year responding to John Hawthorne’s _Why Humeans Are Out of Their Minds_.

bq. “Humeans Aren’t Out of Their Minds”:http://brian.weatherson.org/haootm.pdf

It’s now a model of concision, though I don’t think I sacrified anything of value from the older version.

Here’s a review I just drafted.

bq. “Review of Lewisian Themes”:http://brian.weatherson.org/revlt.pdf

The bibliographic and biographic claims in the first paragraph are slightly more speculative than they sound. If anyone has information that I’m making a mistake of some kind then do please let me know!