Philosophers' Carnival #102
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New reviews of Doing without Concepts
In addition to the BBS target article, the symposium in Dialogue (for which Gualtiero’s excellent paper has been written) and to the reviews mentioned in an earlier post (Mind, Metapyschology), here are some new reviews of Doing without Concepts that might interest some of you: Andrew Woodfield (Bristol, philosophy) has …
Laws of Selection?
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini’s much anticipated book “What Darwin Got Wrong” is coming out in February. I am sure many here followed the heated discussion prompted by Fodor’s LRB article “Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings” (available here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n20/jerry-fodor/why-pigs-dont-have-wings), and perhaps many have read Fodor’s (still unpublished?) manuscript “Against Darwinism” …
epistemic modals conference announcement
By Janice Dowell Epistemic Modals April 16-18, 2010 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE Speakers: Keith DeRose, “Accommodation and Epistemic Possibilities Nobody Knows to be False” Kai von Fintel and Thony Gillies, TBA Angelika Kratzer, “Epistemic Modals: Embedded, Modified, and Plain” John MacFarlane, TBA Robert Stalnaker, “‘If’s, ‘May’s, and ‘Might’s” Eric …
Should Graduate Students Publish Outside Philosophy Journals?
In response to the earlier thread on publishing while in graduate school, a student at a PGR top 40 department wrote me as follows: I’m likely to go on the job market in two years, and as such, I was particularly interested (and helped!) by your advice on publishing while …
Does culture accelerate biological evolution?
On the Human has an interesting target article by Mark Stoneking, Professor of evolutionary genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Antrhopology, on a question at the border of the philosophy of psychology and the philosophy of biology: Does culture accelerate biological evolution or rather buffer our species from …
The Folk Concept of Happiness, Revisted
Dan Haybron’s recent post on ‘The Folk Concept of Happiness’ brings up an interesting question that I think deserves some further discussion. Is people’s ordinary concept of happiness a purely psychological one, or is it wrapped up in some way with irreducibly normative or moral issues? To address this question, …