It’s a bit late, since these have been online for a while. But this is my fault qua blogger, not my fault qua editor. As always, clicking on the title will get you the abstract. To get the full article, you need a subscription.

* “Some Questions in Hume’s Aesthetics”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja%26page%3D2%26sortby%3Ddate&browse_id=1337033&article_id=phco_articles_bpl069, by Christopher Williams
* “Hegel’s Theory of Freedom”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja%26page%3D2%26sortby%3Ddate&browse_id=1337026&article_id=phco_articles_bpl066, by Craig Matarrese
* “What Theories of Truth Should be Like (but Cannot be)”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja%26page%3D2%26sortby%3Ddate&browse_id=1337040&article_id=phco_articles_bpl070, by Hannes Leitgeb
* “Mary Astell’s Serious Proposal: Mind, Method, and Custom”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja%26page%3D2%26sortby%3Ddate&browse_id=1337047&article_id=phco_articles_bpl071, by Alice Sowaal
* “Multiple Realizability”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja%26page%3D2%26sortby%3Ddate&browse_id=1336970&article_id=phco_articles_bpl062, by Eric Funkhouser

As always, clicking on the link will take you to an abstract of the paper. For the full article, you need to get your library to subscribe.

* “Kant’s Formula of the End in Itself: Some Recent Debates”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja&browse_id=802351&article_id=phco_articles_bpl072, By Lara Denis, Agnes Scott College
* “Simples and Gunk”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja&browse_id=802344&article_id=phco_articles_bpl068, By Hud Hudson, Western Washington University
* “Norms of Assertion”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja&browse_id=802330&article_id=phco_articles_bpl065, By Matt Weiner, Texas Tech University
* “The Natural Philosophy of Agency”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja&browse_id=802337&article_id=phco_articles_bpl067, By Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida
* “The Case of the Etymologies in Plato’s Cratylus”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=content_type%3Dcja&browse_id=802323&article_id=phco_articles_bpl057, By Christine J. Thomas, Dartmouth College

Here are a few more Compass articles. Again, the abstracts are freely available by clicking through. Getting the full article requires lobbying your library to subscribe to Compass.

* “The Embodied Cognition Research Programme”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=section%3D%26content_type%3Dcja%26sortby%3Ddate%26Go%3DGo&browse_id=721824&article_id=phco_articles_bpl064, by Larry Shapiro, University of Wisconsin, Madison
* “Mental Causation”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=section%3D%26content_type%3Dcja%26sortby%3Ddate%26Go%3DGo&browse_id=721817&article_id=phco_articles_bpl063, by Karen Bennett, Princeton University
* “New Developments in the Meaning of Life”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=section%3D%26content_type%3Dcja%26sortby%3Ddate%26Go%3DGo&browse_id=721810&article_id=phco_articles_bpl061, by Thaddeus Metz, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
* “Fictional Characters”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=section%3D%26content_type%3Dcja%26sortby%3Ddate%26Go%3DGo&browse_id=721803&article_id=phco_articles_bpl059, by Stacie Friend, Birkbeck College, University of London
* “Dworkin’s Theory of Law”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=section%3D%26content_type%3Dcja%26sortby%3Ddate%26Go%3DGo&browse_id=721796&article_id=phco_articles_bpl058, by Dale Smith, Faculty of Law, Monash University
* “Judicial Review”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=section%3D%26content_type%3Dcja%26sortby%3Ddate%26Go%3DGo&browse_id=721789&article_id=phco_articles_bpl056, by W. J. Waluchow, McMaster University

There has been a pretty steady flow of new articles to “Philosophy Compass”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/ in recent months. Here is a list of what we’ve recently posted.

* “Hobbes’s Reply to the Fool”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-history&sortby=date&section=phco-history&browse_id=569789&article_id=phco_articles_bpl053, By Michael LeBuffe, Texas A&M University.
* “Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism: Is Morality More Like Math or Beauty?”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-history&sortby=date&section=phco-history&browse_id=569782&article_id=phco_articles_bpl052, By Michael B. Gill, University of Arizona.
* “A Field Guide to Social Construction”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-naturalistic-philosophy&sortby=date&section=phco-naturalistic-philosophy&browse_id=569775&article_id=phco_articles_bpl051, By Ron Mallon, University of Utah.
* “Experimental Philosophy”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-naturalistic-philosophy&sortby=date&section=phco-naturalistic-philosophy&browse_id=569768&article_id=phco_articles_bpl050, By Joshua Knobe, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
* “Analytic Epistemology and Experimental Philosophy”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-naturalistic-philosophy&sortby=date&section=phco-naturalistic-philosophy&browse_id=569753&article_id=phco_articles_bpl048, By Joshua Alexander and Jonathan M. Weinberg, Indiana University, Bloomington.
* “Morality and Psychology”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-mind-and-cognitive-science&sortby=date&section=phco-mind-and-cognitive-science&browse_id=569810&article_id=phco_articles_bpl055, By Chrisoula Andreou, University of Utah.
* “Religion in the Public Square”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-religion&sortby=date&section=phco-religion&browse_id=569746&article_id=phco_articles_bpl044, By Edward Langerak, St. Olaf College.
* “Moral Explanation”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-ethics&sortby=date&section=phco-ethics&browse_id=569761&article_id=phco_articles_bpl049, By Brad Majors, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
* “Probability in the Everett Interpretation”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=section&last_results=section%3Dphco-philosophy-of-science&sortby=date&section=phco-philosophy-of-science&browse_id=569803&article_id=phco_articles_bpl054, By Hilary Greaves, Rutgers University.

Clicking on any of those links will take you to the (freely available) article abstracts. And if you like the look of the articles, feel free to ask your library to carry Compass!

Karen Bennett, “Mental Causation”:http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2007.00063.x for “Philosophy Compass”:http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/phco.

bq. Concerns about ‘mental causation’ are concerns about how it is possible for mental states to cause anything to happen. How does what we believe, want, see, feel, hope, or dread manage to cause us to act? Certain positions on the mind-body problem – including some forms of physicalism – make such causation look highly problematic. This entry sketches several of the main reasons to worry, and raises some questions for further investigation.

Michael Gill, “Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism: Is Morality More Like Math or Beauty?”:http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00052.x for “Philosophy Compass”:http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/phco?open=2006

bq. One of the most significant disputes in early modern philosophy was between the moral rationalists and the moral sentimentalists. The moral rationalists – such as Ralph Cudworth, Samuel Clarke, and John Balguy – held that morality originated in reason alone. The moral sentimentalists – such as Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Francis Hutcheson, and David Hume – held that morality originated at least partly in sentiment. In addition to other arguments, the rationalists and sentimentalists developed rich analogies. The most significant analogy the rationalists developed was between morality and mathematics. The most significant analogy the sentimentalists developed was between morality and beauty. These two analogies illustrate well the main ideas, underlying insights, and accounts of moral phenomenology the two positions have to offer. An examination of the two analogies will thus serve as a useful introduction to the debate between moral rationalism and moral sentimentalism as a whole.

Michael Gill, “Moral Rationalism vs. Moral Sentimentalism: Is Morality More Like Math or Beauty?”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=&browse_id=957569&article_id=phco_articles_bpl052 in “Philosophy Compass”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/.

bq. One of the most significant disputes in early modern philosophy was between the moral rationalists and the moral sentimentalists. The moral rationalists – such as Ralph Cudworth, Samuel Clarke, and John Balguy – held that morality originated in reason alone. The moral sentimentalists – such as Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Francis Hutcheson, and David Hume – held that morality originated at least partly in sentiment. In addition to other arguments, the rationalists and sentimentalists developed rich analogies. The most significant analogy the rationalists developed was between morality and mathematics. The most significant analogy the sentimentalists developed was between morality and beauty. These two analogies illustrate well the main ideas, underlying insights, and accounts of moral phenomenology the two positions have to offer. An examination of the two analogies will thus serve as a useful introduction to the debate between moral rationalism and moral sentimentalism as a whole.

Michael LeBuffe, “Hobbes’s Reply to the Fool”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=&browse_id=957576&article_id=phco_articles_bpl053 in “Philosophy Compass”:http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/.

bq. The objection Hobbes raises in the voice of the Fool against his own argument is, apparently, that it is sometimes rational to break covenant. Hobbes’s answer is puzzling, both because it seems implausible and also because it seems at odds with some of his own views. This article reviews several strategies critics have taken in trying to show that Hobbes’s answer is more plausible than it seems and one attempt to show that the Fool’s objection concerns the action of breaking covenant only indirectly.

Philip Robbins, “The Ins and Outs of Introspection”:http://compass.bw.semcs.net/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=&browse_id=635157&article_id=phco_articles_bpl043 for “Philosophy Compass”:http://compass.bw.semcs.net/subject/philosophy/.

bq. Introspection admits of several varieties, depending on which types of mental events are introspected. I distinguish three kinds of introspection (primary, secondary, and tertiary) and three explanations of the general capacity: the inside access view, the outside access view, and the hybrid view. Drawing on recent evidence from clinical and developmental psychology, I argue that the inside view offers the most promising account of primary and secondary introspection.

Frank Arntzenius, “Time Travel: Double Your Fun”:http://compass.bw.semcs.net/subject/philosophy/article_view?parent=browse&sortby=date&last_results=&browse_id=635164&article_id=phco_articles_bpl045 for “Philosophy Compass”:http://compass.bw.semcs.net/subject/philosophy/.

bq. I start off by relating the standard philosophical account of what time travel is to models of time travel that have recently been discussed by physicists. I then discuss some puzzles associated with time travel. I conclude that philosophers’ arguments against time travel are relevant when assessing the likelihood of the occurrence time travel in our world, and are relevant to the assessment whether time travel is physically possible.