Update

I have now finally had a chance to upload a copy of my Inscrutability and Ontological Commitment paper to my webpage. Will soon upload some pics etc from my recent trip to the US and Copenhagen.

Epistemology: 5 Questions

Vincent F. Hendricks and Duncan Pritchard just published a collection of short interviews based on 5 questions presented to 21 leading scholars in epistemology. The questions are primarily meta-epistemological and concern, among other things, the role of epistemology in relation to other areas, neglected areas of epistemology, and epistemology in the future. Should be a fun read!

Knowability Book

Joe's knowability book is becoming more real.

Descriptions

I just uploaded a draft of an encyclopedia entry I am writing on descriptions. It's still just a super-rough draft. But if any of you might have any comments you'd like to share, then please don't hesitate to email me. The word count is rather limited, so I apologize in advance if I haven't included your seminal work on descriptions in the entry. Of course, if it's seminal it should be included. So please don't hesitate to email me about that as well.

Bloggingheads.tv

Philosophers on Bloggingheads.tv

OPP

Wo's online papers in philosophy feed

Live Blogging

Live blogging from the World Congress of Philosophy, Seoul Korea. Very cool.

Women, Tenure and Age

Check out this recent post at the Splintered Mind, which has some data on the relationship between age, gender, and rank. The data indicate that female philosophers progress more slowly through the ranks than their male colleagues. Thanks Joshua and Eric for collecting these data!

The AAP, Seafood, Open Access, and More

It's been a bit quiet around here cuz things have been quite hectic around here, that is, here at Lemmings and here down under. Ya know, conferences, visitors, the Wig, dinners, and deadlines. Will be back with more frequent postings and updates after things quiet down at the end of August. In the meantime some announcements:

Just returned from the AAP -- the Australian version of the APA -- highly recommendable. Much like Pacific APAs, just better. David Chalmers has uploaded some pics from the conference. The seafood was just fabulous (hate that word but it's true), the talks were very high quality (blind refereeing is highly overrated!), and our very own Jonathan Schaffer won the prize for the best AJP paper in the last couple of years. That's impressive, especially given that he just won the APA prize for the best journal article in the last couple of years. Good going, Jonathan!

Later this week there is a fantastic-looking conference on the relational and representational character of perception, organized by Susanna Schellenberg. So, if you're in the neighborhood, you probably would do well to check it out.

Episteme, Issue 4.3 - a themed issue on Testimony will be freely available for download for 14 days (July 7 - July 21). I am a big fan of open access!

The latest issue of The Reasoner is now freely available for download in pdf format. I am a big fan of open access!

There is an upcoming graduate philosophy conference in the Nothern spring 09 at the University at Buffalo on the work of Lynne Rudder Baker, followed by a grown-ups conference, also on the work of LRB. Attendees include: Lynne Rudder Baker (MIT), Amie Thomasson (U of Miami), Derek Pereboom (U Conn), Crawford Elder (Cornell), and Brian Garrett (McMaster). Check it out.

I think this X-PHI survey is still running. If it is, go take it. It's good fun and actually makes you re-evaluate your own beliefs, desires and intentions -- probably not what they intended but a nice side effect. And, according to Jonathan, I am now officially a supporter of X-PHI (having run a couple of highly irregular linguistics surveys) -- so go take that survey, would you!

34th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology

June 26-29, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Registration is now open; deadline Thursday, June 5 -- 12:00pm EST

Speakers:

George Ainslie, Michael L. Anderson, Louise Antony
Peter Carruthers, Louis Charland, Anjan Chatterjee
David Danks, Felipe De Brigard, Michael Devitt
Marthah Farah, Evelina Fedorenko, Owen Flanagan,
Jerry Fodor, Kenneth R. Foster, Lila R. Gleitman (President of SPP)
George Graham, Bryce Huebner, Bertram F. Malle,
Barbara Malt, Christopher Meacham, Dominic P. Murphy
Thomas Nadelhoffer, Kenneth Norman, Mike Oaksford
Erik Parens, Nancy Petry, Jeffrey Poland
Zenon Pylyshyn, Sarah Robins, Paul Rozin,
Laurie R. Santos (the 2008 Stanton Prize winner)
Michael Strevens, Justin Sytsma, Kelly Trogdon
Charles Wallis, Deena Weisberg, Daniel Weiskopf
Fei Xu, and Carlos Zednik, among many others.

This year's conference will be preceded June 25-26 by a workshop on experimental philosophy.

For more information click here.

Midwest Epistemology Workshop

The second annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop will be held October 17-18, 2008 on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The workshop will consist of seven nonconcurrent sessions, each involving a presentation of 45 minutes followed by 45 minutes of discussion, and a longer keynote address. Tyler Burge (UCLA) will give the keynote address.

Speakers: Mike Bergmann (Purdue), Brit Brogaard (ANU/Missouri-St. Louis), Juan Comesana (Wisconsin), Andy Egan (Michigan), Adam Leite (Indiana), Peter Markie (Missouri), and Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana).

More detailed information about the program, accommodations, and travel is available at the conference website.

EPISTEME Sixth Annual Conference

EPISTEME will hold its sixth annual conference at Northwestern University on June 26-27, 2009. The 2009 meeting will focus on the epistemological significance of disagreement.

Confirmed participants include: Michael Bergmann (Purdue), Stewart Cohen (Arizona State), Sherrilyn Roush (Berkeley) and Roger White(MIT).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Papers should be no more than 5,000 words, excluding notes and references, and should be prepared for blind review. Electronic submissions should be sent to David.Christensen(at)Brown.edu by January 15, 2009. Approximately four papers will be selected from the submissions for presentation at the conference. The selected papers will also be published, along with the papers of the confirmed participants above, in a special issue of EPISTEME, with David Christensen as the Guest Editor.

Conference organizers: Alvin Goldman (Rutgers), Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) and David Christensen (Brown).

The Reasoner 2(5)

The latest issue of The Reasoner is now available for download in pdf format.

What we all think about knowing

Cross-cultural uniformity and diversity in epistemic assessments

An interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Toronto

May 17, 2008

Speakers: Stephen Stich, Rebecca Saxe and Anna Papafragou

Click here for further details.

Episteme 4: 3, Perspectives on Testimony

Guest Editor: Jennifer Lackey. Contributors: Peter Lipton, Linda Zagzebski, Melissa Koenig and Paul Harris, Patrick Rysiew, Paul Faulkner, Al Casullo, John Greco, Marc Moffet, Arnon Keren, and Jonathan Adler. Click here for further details.

Women Don't Ask

Women, Repeat This: Don’t Ask, Don’t Get (HT: Jody Miller)

The Reasoner 2 (4)

is now available for download in pdf format.

More Migration

This time it's Theories n Things.

LWBM Hits the Road

New location and a stylish new look.

Hiatus

I will be on the road for a while, and will probably have limited internet access. So no blogging in the meantime.