Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

Philosophy in prison

Story here.

(Thanks to Matt Kramer for the pointer.)

Philosophers' Annual: Top Papers of 2010

Patrick Grim (Stony Brook) has sent out the formal announcement; the papers will soon appear on the PA site.  Here is the announcement:

Selections from the literature of 2010:

Block, Ned (NYU), "Attention and Mental Paint,” Philosophical Issues 20 (2010), 23-63.

Briggs, Rachael (Sydney, moving to ANU & Queensland), "Decision-Theoretic Paradoxes As Voting Paradoxes”,  Philosophical Review, 119(1), 1-30

Chignell, Andrew (Cornell), "Real Repugnance and Belief about Things-in-Themselves: A Problem and Kant's Three Solutions," in Benjamin Lipscomb and James Krueger, Kant's Moral Metaphysics: God, Freedom, and Immortality.  New York: De Gruyter, 2010, pp. 177-210.

Elga, Adam (Princeton), "Subjective Probabilities Should be Sharp,” Philosophers' Imprint 10(5) 2010.

Fine, Kit (NYU), "Towards a Theory of Part,” Journal of Philosophy 107 (2010), 559-589.

Leitgeb, Hannes (Ludwig Maximilians University) & Pettigrew, Richard (Bristol), "An Objective Justification of Bayesianism II: The Consequences of Minimizing Inaccuracy," Philosophy of Science 77 (2010), 236-272

Restall, Greg (Melbourne), "On t and u, and What They Can Do," Analysis 70(2010), 673-676

Ross, Jacob (USC), "Sleeping Beauty, Countable Additivity, and Rational Dilemmas," Philosophical Review 119(2010), 411-447

Schlenker, Philippe (Institute Jean-Nicod), "Presuppositions and Local Contexts,” Mind 119(2010), 377-391

White, Roger (MIT), "Evidential Symmetry and Mushy Credences,” Oxford Studies in Epistemology 3,  Oxford Univ. Press, 161-186

Nominating Editors: JC Beall, Ned Block, Tyler Burge, David Chalmers, David Christensen, Gregory Currie, David Danks, Keith DeRose, Lisa Downing, Adam Elga, Branden Fitelson, Owen Flanagan, Marilyn Friedman, Tamar Szabo Gendler, Alan Hajek, Ned Hall, Gary Hatfield, Allen Hazen, Benj Hellie, Christopher Hitchcock, Tom Kelly, Josh Knobe, Jonathan L. Kvanvig, Marc Lange, Brian Leiter, Martin Lin, Peter Ludlow, Ishani Maitra, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Shaun Nichols, Derk Pereboom, Jim Pryor, Greg Restall, Geoff Sayre-McCord, Richard Scheines, Mark Schroeder, Laura Schroeter, Roy Sorensen, Peter Spirtes, Jason Stanley, Johan van Benthem, Mark van Roojen,  Achille Varzi, Peter Vranas, Eric Watkins, Sam Wheeler, Jim Woodward, Gideon Yaffe

Major movements in philosophy as geometric graphics

This is a mix of the curious and amusing.

(Thanks to Daniel Groll for the pointer.)

The "Voter Fraud" Fraud Exposed

Courtesy of Rick Hasen (UC Irvine).

Spiros whacks the APA's awful new website...

...again.

Administrative Bloat in Universities

Story here.

(Thanks to Kenneth Noe for the pointer.)

More on the cost of academic journals

A discussion here.

Vihvelin blog

Philosopher Kadri Vihvelin (USC) has a blog on free will issues here.  Interesting stuff.

This bird is pressing its luck

This is one of the funnier cat videos (in this case, cat and bird) I've seen.