It’s been a while since I posted here, largely because the young one on the right has been taking up a fair amount of time. So here are a few bits of news.
- Andy Egan and I have (very slowly) put together a collection of papers on epistemic modals and epistemic modality, and it is “coming out with OUP this spring”:http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Epistemology/?view=usa&view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780199591589. The collection isn’t perfect; it should have come out ages ago, and contributor list is missing “a certain something”:http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/01/epistemic-modality-is-a-male-thing.html, but we hope it’s a valuable addition to the literature. I’ll hopefully write more about this closer to publication, especially about what I wish I’d done differently along the way to publication.
- The “Philosophical Quarterly”:http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pq/ essay competition this year is on the topic of Hume after 300 years. There is a 1500 pound prize, so get your Hume papers ready.
- “In Defence of a Kripkean Dogma”:http://brian.weatherson.org/IDKD.pdf is now available in “preprint on the PPR website”:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00478.x/abstract. Hopefully it will be in paper format soon!
- There is a workshop on “Formal Epistemology and Experimental Philosophy”:http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/tilps/FEMEP2011/ at Tillberg University this Fall.
- The “March 2011”:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phco.2011.6.issue-3/issuetoc issue of “Philosophy Compass”:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phco.2011.6.issue-3/issuetoc is out, with papers on truth in fiction, truthmaking, Leibniz’s Law, and many other fun topics.