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

Good morning, readers, on this rainy Friday!

Just arrived in Robbins: the latest issues of American Philosophical Quarterly and Erkenntnis.  A list of the Tables of Contents follows below.

American Philosophical Quarterly 45(2) October 2008 (This is not currently available electronically.)

• Orthogonality of Phenomenality and Content, Gottfried Vosgerau, Tobias Schlicht, and Albert Newen, 309-328
• Agent-Based Virtue Ethics and the Fundamentality of Virtue, Daniel C. Russell, 329-348
• “Designer Babies” and Harm to Supernumerary Embryos, Mark Walker, 348-364
• A Unified Pyrrhonian Resolution of the Toxin Problem, the Surprise Examination, and Newcomb’s Puzzle, Laurence Goldstein and Peter Cave, 365-376
• Response-Dependence of Concepts Is Not for Properties, Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir, 377-386
• Personal Identity Un-Locke-ed, Andrew Naylor, 387-396

Erkenntnis 69(2) September 2008 (You will need your Harvard ID and PIN to access this issue.)

• Sortals for Dummies, John E. Sarnecki, 145-164
• Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?, Sanford Goldberg, 165-187
• Contrastivism Rather than Something Else? On the Limits of Epistemic Contrastivism, Peter Baumann, 189-200
• The Causal Chain Problem, Michael Baumgartner, 201-226
• The Logical Structure of International Trade Theory, Frieder Lempp, 227-242
• Is There a Simple Argument for Higher-Order Representation Theories of Awareness Consciousness?, Mikkel Gerken, 243-259
• Too Naturalist and Not Naturalist Enough: Reply to Horsten, Luca Incurvati, 261-274
• Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy, Kevin Dewan, 275-277

Good morning, readers!

I realized yesterday that I haven’t posted any new podcasts from Philosophy Bites since late May. Here’s a list of the podcasts added since then:

Enjoy!

Happy Monday, readers!

Just arrived in Robbins last Friday: the latest issues of Inquiry and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.  Here are the Tables of Contents for the respective journals:

Inquiry 51(3) June 2008

• “Wittgenstein, Ethics and Basic Moral Certainty,” Nigel Pleasants
• “Fichte’s Fictions Revisited,” Benjamin D. Crowe
• “Personal Identity as a Task,” Sophia Vasalou
• “The Myth of the Metaphysical Circle: An Analysis of the Contemporary Crisis of the Critique of Metaphysics,” Herbert De Vriese

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77(1) July 2008

Articles

• “The Virtue of Practical Rationality,” Sigrún Svavarsdóttir
• “Internalist Foundationalism and the Problem of the Epistemic Regress,” José L. Zalabardo
• “A Functionalist Theory of Properties,” Ann Whittle
• “Is Locke’s Theory of Knowledge Inconsistent?,” Samuel C. Rickless
• “Why Be an Anti-Individualist?,” Laura Schroeter

Discussions

• “A Hard-line Reply to Pereboom’s Four-Case Manipulation Argument,” Michael McKenna
• “A Hard-line Reply to the Multiple-Case Manipulation Argument,” Derk Pereboom

• “Comments on Woodward, Making Things Happen,” Michael Strevens
• “Response to Strevens,” Jim Woodward

Book Symposium
The Evolution of Morality

• “Preçis of The Evolution of Morality,” Richard Joyce
• “Acquired Moral Truths,” Jesse Prinz
• “Some Questions About The Evolution of Morality,” Stephen Stich
• “Evolution and the Possibility of Moral Realism,” Peter Carruthers, Scott M. James
• “Replies,” Richard Joyce

Review Essay

• “Review Essay on Sami Pihlström’s Solipsism: History, Critique, and Relevance,” Richard Schantz

Critical Notices

• Epistemic Luck, reviewed by Jonathan Kvanvig
• The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche On Overcoming Nihilism, reviewed by Robert Pippin
• Against Coherence: Truth, Probability, and Justification, reviewed by Tomoji Shogenji