Directory of Open Access Journals
There are many open access journals in philosophy as well as other disciplines. They are listed here. (Thanks to Peter Suber for the link.)
Was Psychosemantics a Failure?
I recently had a conversation with three self-identified Rutgers people (two Rutgers faculty plus a senior philosopher who visited Rutgers in the early 1990s) who claimed that at Rutgers it is accepted wisdom that psychosemantics was a failure. No one ever properly solved the disjunction problem let alone naturalize semantic content. …
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Philosophers' Carnival #126
here.
Functions and their Appropriate Rate of Performance
Justin Garson (here is his old webpage; he is moving to a new job at Hunter College/CUNY) and I have written a paper in which we introduce a novel version of the Biostatistical Theory of functions (primarily due to Christopher Boorse) that accounts for the phenomenon that functions must be performed …
Could Conjoned Twins Share a Mind?
Article in the NY Times Magazine.
Philosophers' Carnival #125
here.