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PhilPapers categorisation update! The 'Feminist Philosophy of Science' leaf has been moved up from the miscellaneous sub-category into the main category of 'General Philosophy of Science' on PhilPapers. 🧡
30.01.2026 12:47 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0The early shots in the desert might be a nod to the cover art of Funkadelic’s album Maggot Brain?
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Review of Christopher Moore, _The Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunê and Self-Constitution in Classical Greece_ by Thomas Tuozzo @oupphilosophy.bsky.social
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Abstract for Ethan Nowak's paper titled "Sociolinguistic Variation, Slurs, and Speech Acts" In this paper, I argue that the ‘social meanings’ associated with sociolinguistic variation put pressure on the standard philosophical conception of language, according to which the foremost thing we do with words is exchange information. Drawing on parallels with the explanatory challenge posed by slurs and pejoratives, I argue that the best way to understand social meanings is to think of them in speech act theoretic terms, and I develop a distinctive form of pluralism about the kinds of performances realized by means of sociolinguistic variants.
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"Sociolinguistic Variation, Slurs, and Speech Acts" by Ethan Nowak @ethannowak.bsky.social
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Boosting this news: The Journal of Philosophy will suspend new submissions starting next Friday, January 16, 2026, until at least mid-August.
05.01.2026 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0At the close of 2025, we offer our gratitude to the global philosophical community for supporting The Journal of Philosophy in many crucial capacities: as authors, reviewers, editors, subscribers, and readers. Thank you.
31.12.2025 18:02 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Abstract: Suppose that, yesterday at noon, Maria considered flipping a fair coin but didn’t. What probability do you assign to “If Maria had flipped the coin, the coin would have landed heads"? Now suppose that, contrary to fact, Maria did indeed flip the coin. In that counterfactual scenario, what is the probability of “The coin will land tails"? The two questions sound strikingly similar. I argue that they sound similar because they are equivalent. The chance of a counterfactual “If A, would C" equals the chance of C, in the counterfactual scenario that A (and a similar principle holds for credence). This principle does better than similar principles that have been defended (like Skyrms’s Thesis), avoids triviality, and gives us important clues for a semantics for counterfactuals.
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"Probabilities of Counterfactuals Are Counterfactual Probabilities" by Paolo Santorio
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Abstract: Outside of philosophy, the idea that workers deserve to be paid according to their productive contributions is very popular. But political philosophers have given it relatively little attention. In this paper, I argue against the attempt to use this idea about desert and contribution to vindicate significant income inequality. I claim that reward according to contribution fails on its own terms when the following condition holds: the size of each worker's contribution depends on what other workers only together do. When workers only together make another more productive, that is not reflected in the sum of their own contributions. Thus reward according to contribution recognizes individual accomplishments without recognizing their dependence on collectives, dependence that is, in complex economies, ubiquitous.
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20.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"Desert and Economic Interdependence" by Evan Behrle
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🏆 Winner of the 2024 Erik Olin Wright Prize 🏆
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Abstract: We argue that if there are laws of nature, then there must also be accidents. If the “laws” in a world suffice to determine the world’s entire history, then these “laws” cannot play various central roles characteristic of laws, and thus (we conclude) they are not laws at all. Many proposed accounts of lawhood (primitivist accounts, universals accounts, the Best System Account, the Package Deal Account, essentialist accounts) inappropriately permit worlds with laws but no accidents. We identify two otherwise dissimilar accounts that correctly (on our view) deem such worlds impossible; one is Humean and the other is non-Humean.
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"The Necessity of Accidents" by Christopher Dorst and Marc Lange
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"Easy Practical Knowledge" by Timothy R. Kearl and J. Adam Carter
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"Wandering Inquiry" by Susanna Siegel #newarticle
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"Saving Conceptual Role Expressivism from Defect" by Sebastian Köhler #newarticle #philosophy #philsky
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"Chance as a Guide to Life: The Other Principal Principle" by Richard Bradley #newarticle #philosophy #philsky
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08.09.2025 13:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
“Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (philosophydata.org), a long running project that collects and analyzes data on graduate experience and employment outcomes for philosophy PhDs, is seeking to expand its leadership…from 1 to 3 directors”
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Congratulations to Caspar Jacobs on the selection of his JP paper, "Comparativist Theories or Conspiracy Theories?," for the 2024 Philosopher's Annual!
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Article Title: "Alethic Pluralism and Kripkean Truth"; Abstract: According to alethic pluralism, there are different ways of being true, that is, there is a plurality of truth properties, each of which pertains to a specific domain of discourse. This paper shows how such a plurality can be represented in a coherent formal framework by means of a Kripke-style construction that yields intuitively correct extensions for distinct truth predicates. The theory of truth we develop can handle at least three crucial problems that have been raised in connection with alethic pluralism: mixed compounds, mixed inferences, and semantic paradoxes.
#newarticle "Alethic Pluralism and Kripkean Truth" by Andrea Iacona, Stefano Romeo, and Lorenzo Rossi
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Abstract: Rehabilitating an argument originally proposed by Leibniz, Michael Della Rocca has offered a new argument for the Principle of Sufficient Reason. A crucial element of this argument is that, for every x, the fact that x does not brutely fail to exist is an untrivial requisite of x’s existence. Criticising this claim, I show that the new argument for PSR fails.
#newarticle "No Easy Road to PSR" by Mohammad Saleh Zarepour
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