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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Metaphysics articles, Pruss on choice and substances & important reviews

Articles

Huw Price, "Metaphysics after Carnap: the ghost who walks?" To appear in David Chalmers, Ryan Wassermann and David Manley, eds., Metametaphysics (OUP, 2009).

William Lycan, "Phenomenal Intentionalities."

W. Russ Payne, "What is a Law of Nature."

Toby Handfield, "The metaphysics of dispositions and causes."

Gyula Klima, "The Medieval Problem of Universals." (SEP)

Anil Gupta, "Definitions." (SEP)

Carl Hoefer, "Causal Determinism."

Peter Menzies, "Counterfactual Theories of Causation."

Blog posts

Alex Pruss, "Prediction of Choices."

_______, "Why do we need substances if presentism holds?"

_______, "Love of substances"

Reviews

Eric T. Olson, What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Oxford University Press, 2007, 250pp. Reviewed by Michael O'Rourke, University of Idaho.

Lucy O'Brien, Self-Knowing Agents, Oxford University Press, 2007, 231pp. Reviewed by Robert J. Howell, Southern Methodist University.

Steven Horst, Beyond Reduction: Philosophy of Mind and Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science, Oxford University Press, 2007, 223pp. Reviewed by D. Gene Witmer, University of Florida.

Georg Gasser (ed.), How Successful Is Naturalism?, Ontos, 2007, 300pp. Reviewed by Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University.

Trenton Merricks, Truth and Ontology, Oxford University Press, 2007, 202pp. Reviewed by Ben Caplan, Ohio State University.

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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Philosophy of Religion Resources

Linda Zagzebski, "Foreknowledge and Free will" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Alex Pruss, "A Molinist Theodicy for Infant Death."

Mike Almeida, "The Problem with Cumulative Cases for Theism"

Papers from Baylor's 2008 Philosophy of Religion Conference.

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Natural law, divine command, empathy and globalization

Mark Murphy, "The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics"

Alex Pruss, "A fourth step in divine command dialectics"

Michael Slote, The Ethics of Care and Empathy (Routledge, 2007). Reviewed by Lawrence Blum, University of Massachusetts, Boston

William M. Sullivan and Will Kymlicka (eds.), The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Reviewed by Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan University

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