I’m about to head away for the weekend, so I won’t be responding to (or moderating) comments for the next few days unless I spend some of my vacation time on the internet. (That’s not to say I’ll actually be off the blog…)

• Sinan Dogramaci has “a paper”:http://www.sinandogramaci.net/Site/Sinan_Dogramaci_files/Unabridged,%20March%2017th.pdf forthcoming in Noûs using a similar kind of proof to the one I used in “Induction and Supposition”:http://brian.weatherson.org/IaS.pdf. So I’ve updated my paper to note that he was first! Sinan disagrees with me about where the proof fails. I think it fails when we try to make a statistical inference inside the scope of a supposition. He thinks it fails when we do ∀-introduction in a proof that includes non-deductive steps. So I’ve also extended the discussion in my paper of why I think I’ve diagnosed the error correctly. I don’t think I’ve got to the heart of what Sinan says, but I hope I’ve at least improved my paper.
• I have two posts up at the Arché Methodology Blog. One is on “thought experiments and fictions”:http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~armeth/2009/06/two-views-on-thought-experiments/, the other on whether philosophy is inductive or deductive
• Richard Dietz and Igor Douven are putting on a conference on “Conditionals and Conditionalization”:http://formalphilosophy.org/node/333 in Leuven on September 4-6.
• A new “European Journal for Philosophy of Science”:http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0906&L=philos-l&T=0&P=24272 is being established, though I’m not sure when it will start taking submissions.