Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

Arrived last week: the latest issue of Philosophy & Phenomenological Research — Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 77(3) November 2008.

Here’s the Table of Contents:

Articles

• The Causal Theory of Properties and the Causal Theory of Reference, or How to Name Properties and Why It Matters, Robert D. Rupert
• Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument Against Coincident Entities, Theodore Sider
• Forgiving Someone for Who They Are (and Not Just What They’ve Done), Macalester Bell
• Divine Hoorays: Some Parallels between Expressivism and Religious Ethics, Nicholas Unwin
• Flattery, Yuval Eylon, David Heyd
• Locke’s Problem Concerning Perceptual Error, Antonia Lolordo
• Epistemic Goals and Epistemic Values, Stephen R. Grimm

Discussions

• The Determinists Have Run Out of Luck—For a Good Reason, Storrs McCall, E.J. Lowe
• Bad Luck Once Again, Neil Levy

Special Symposium

• Understanding Simulation, Susan Hurley
• Hurley on Simulation, Alvin I. Goldman

Book Symposium: Moral Skepticisms

• Précis of Moral Skepticisms, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
• Coping with Moral Uncertainty, Peter Railton
• Contrastivism, Relevance Contextualism, and Meta-Skepticism, Mark Timmons
• Do We Have Any Justified Moral Beliefs?, David Copp
• Replies to Copp, Timmons, and Railton, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

Critical Notices

• Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment, reviewed by Earl Conee
• Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective, reviewed by Charles Siewert

Also arrived this week: the latest issue of Noûs — Noûs 42(4) December 2008 — with an article by the department’s own Jeff McDonough:

• New Foundations for Imperative Logic I: Logical Connectives, Consistency, and Quantifiers, Peter B.M. Vranas
• How Expressivists Can and Should Solve Their Problem with Negation, Mark Schroeder
• The Price of Inscrutability, J.R.G. Williams
• Deontological Restrictions and the Self/Other Symmetry, David Alm
• Leibniz’s Two Realms Revisited, Jeffrey K. McDonough
• The Standard Argument for Blame Incompatibilism, Peter A. Graham
• Problems for Testimonial Acquaintance, Michael J. Raven
• Is the Problem of the Many a Problem in Metaphysics?, Dan López de Sa
• On What it Takes for There to Be No Fact of the Matter, Jody Azzouni and Otávio Bueno
• Frankfurt’s Argument against Alternative Possibilities: Looking Beyond the Exemplars, Michael McKenna