It has been a while since we’ve had a links post.

• The Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy has started up a “Friends of the Stanford Encyclopaedia Society”:https://leibniz.stanford.edu/friends/. Membership is very cheap, and with it you get access to professionally styled PDFs of SEP articles. And, of course, you’re supporting a good cause.
• There has been a lot of philosophical interest happening over at Crooked Timber recently. I wanted to particularly note “Daniel’s post on throwing eggs at BNP leaders”:http://crookedtimber.org/2009/06/12/the-bnp-and-the-egging-laffer-curve/. Whatever you think of the conclusion, and I think I’m a lot more happy with throwing eggs at fascists than most of the commentators are, the post makes some very insightful points about the role of authority in political discourse. A lot of philosophers have extremely simplistic views about the dynamics of authority in modern societies, and thinking hard about cases like this one is one way to have less simplistic views.
• Robbie Williams has an “excellent paper”:http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/%7Ephljrgw/wip/scoring.pdf (PDF) on generalising Joyce’s accuracy argument for probabilism to non-classical contexts. Among other things, the paper has a very nice demonstration of what’s going on in the classical version of the argument. But I’m really excited about the non-classical parts. There is going to be some really interesting work on non-classical probability theory over the next few years.
• Finally, “Cosma Shalizi on Bayesian statistics”:http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/612.html, via Brad DeLong.