In the “comments to my post on metaphysical vagueness”:http://tar.weatherson.org/2009/12/21/vague-parts-and-metaphysical-vagueness/#comments, Andrew Bacon and Robbie Williams raise some pretty good objections to my arguments against vague existence. I think those are good objections, and the argument I wrote in that post doesn’t work. So this is a retraction of it.
On a more positive note, here are a couple of things happening around the web.
Ben Eggleston has “a good review”:http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=18447 of Martin Peterson’s new textbook on decision theory.
And we have several new Compass papers out. Here they are:
Online ISSN: 1747-9991 Print ISSN: 1747-9991 |
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Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art | |
1-15 | Black Aesthetics Paul Taylor Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00263.x |
History of Philosophy | |
16-28 | Russell, His Paradoxes, and Cantor’s Theorem: Part I Kevin C. Klement Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00270.x |
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Russell, His Paradoxes, and Cantor’s Theorem: Part II Kevin C. Klement Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00271.x |
Legal & Political | |
42-54 | Moral Luck and the Law David Enoch Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00265.x |
55-66 | Reparations and Racial Inequality Derrick Darby Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00268.x |
Metaphysics | |
67-77 | Epistemological Objections to Platonism David Liggins Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00259.x |
Philosophy of Religion | |
78-90 | The Divine Attributes Nicholas Everitt Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00264.x |
Philosophy of Science | |
91-101 | Scientific Representation Mauricio Suárez Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00261.x |
Teaching & Learning Guide | |
102-107 | Teaching & Learning Guide for: Contemporary Virtue Ethics Karen Stohr Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00241.x |
108-111 | Teaching & Learning Guide for: Demonstratives in Philosophy and Linguistics Lynsey Wolter Abstract Published Online: 6 Jan 2010 DOI 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00267.x |
The Klement papers are a big part of the reason that I’ve been talking about the semantic paradoxes around here so much, and I particularly recommend them.