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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Philosophers' Carnival #141

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I used to link to these Carnivals all the time, but it's been a while. This one has not one but two of my recent posts, the one on ru...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Are semantic rules true or false?

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Over at Daniel's place the other day there was an interesting discussion about McDowell's views of what he calls the "endogeno...
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Sunday, April 01, 2012

This is an April Fool post

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April Fool! (Discuss.)
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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Cousin Victor [not really] fills us in

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Victor Mair at Language Log : Before I went to my ancestral village of Pfaffenhofen, Austria in 1967, I had always assumed that "Mair...
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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Hear, hear

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Brian Leiter likes to pour scorn on the NY Times's philosophy blog The Stone (he really doesn't like Simon Critchley), but this pos...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Wait, what about pumpernickel?

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I have just discovered that on February 16, 1962, one C. M. Mullen of G. & C. Merriam Company wrote a letter to my maternal grandfather,...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Click click

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I clicked over today to an interview with Brian Leiter in a post on The Browser today, and in the "Related Articles" sidebar ther...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

3QD philosophy prize

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The voting round of the 3 Quarks Daily philosophy prize for 2011 is now open. I've got a post there, but don't just go there and v...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Bored with the Beguine?

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I don't usually post things like this, but I want to get back into the habit of posting, and you must admit I have been pretty restraine...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Epistemic luck (intro)

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When I was about 10 years old, I had a philosophical discussion – or disagreement anyway, as we did not get very much farther than simply st...
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011

The past is never dead; it's not even past

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I recently had occasion to dine at an establishment with which most people are at least familiar, as it is a fairly large chain. I speak of...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Let's not read too much into this

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Abbas just sent me this picture: The title of his email was "Duckrabbit!", but when I looked at it, all I saw was a duck. I mean, ...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Baby steps

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Okay, I said I was going to start 'er up again, but not surprisingly that is easier written than done. So let's start out small. I...
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Monday, January 03, 2011

A note from the management

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My goodness, I haven't been around since July?! Okay, right. Let me do a little dusting, and then let's see if we can't start ...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Too true, alas

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I write like David Foster Wallace I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software . Analyze your writing! Not the best model for philosophi...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

In lieu of a widget

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... let me just say that I have decided to post some of my ambient mixes on a new streaming audio site, Mixcloud ( link ). I had held back ...
Friday, December 04, 2009

Our hero contemplates the prospect of attaining the sublime and funky love that he craves

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Michael Bérubé in a pensive moment.
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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Why Davidson is not Humpty Dumpty

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I promised in the comments to the other post to say something about Davidson's argument in "Nice Derangement," which is of cou...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

Bilgrami's critique of the Platonistic urge (or: why reject the very idea of semantic normativity?)

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The previous post was a bit of a bear, wasn't it. (By the way, if you liked it, you may vote for it here - once they work out the bugs...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Can words be used incorrectly?

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The other day at Language Log there was a post directing us to a philosophically-themed Dinosaur Comic, where T-Rex jubilantly schools phil...
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