Brian Weatherson

That’s almost an auto reject unless there are literally no papers on PhilPapers on it.

Just so disrespectful to the people who have worked on the topic.

I thought the referees were required to stop the game for a red. Imagine what would have happened if he played advantage and Neto scored on the counter.

Here is California the winter was alarmingly notably warm

Very sorry to learn that Dagfinn Føllesdal has died. He often visited Helsinki while I was a PhD student there in the 1980s, and he always was wonderfully encouraging. And I learnt so much from him about Husserl and Frege. R.I.P.

Oh I'd forgotten that one. That's a very good precedent. Playing in the Championship and any European league is so many games.

If Forest win the Europa League and are relegated, would they still be eligible for the Champions League?

Can you play in the Champions League and the Championship at the same time?

How would that go for player recruitment? Which players would take Champions League games over Premier League?

I don't know how much this generalises to the Uk, but I always thought a big reason that terminology was so widespread in Australia was that the print media was largely funded by real estate ads.

New on the Archive:

Price, Huw (2026) Retrieving the Baby: Reichenbach’s Principle, Bell Locality, and Selection Bias. [Preprint]

https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28387/

Today's blog post: Discussion Arcs for Topics and Philosophers

schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2026/02/disc...

Australia has had RCV for the House since the 1920s.

There were two conservative parties at the time, and they didn't want to lose three-cornered races to Labor, so they brought in RCV and now there's no constituency for removing it.

Cantor’s Plagiarism - Daily Nous A new article by Joseph Howlett at Quanta explains how Georg Cantor plagiarized Richard Dedekind's work on infinity. The case that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind had been made earlier by José Ferreirós (...

Cantor "carefully erased every trace of his collaborator’s contribution, including stray uses of terms that anyone in the know would recognize as Dedekind’s"

Also these folks provide the best training data and getting it right away has value.

Look at these cool philosophy of physics postdocs we're advertising here at LSE!

philjobs.org/job/show/30977 and philjobs.org/job/show/30981

‘Very Republican, very patriotic’: right-leaning civic centers now offer courses at US public colleges Republican lawmakers push for conservative professors to counter purported leftwing indoctrination in schools

Want to know more about the sweeping trend of state mandated taxpayer financed and hyper empowered civics centers, and the political project they embody, as in Ohio? See this excellent @theguardian.com article @osuaaup.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The regular season packages for the big US sports run around $150-200 (US dollars that is). And they get lots of subscribers even though they don't cover the playoffs. For a league where the regular season is the whole game, I'd expect that to go up.

So I agree this won't save viewers any money.

Postdoc opportunity at the Taft Research Center here at the University of Cincinnati for which philosophers are eligible to apply. See here for details and to apply: jobs.uc.edu/job/Taft-Pos...

Dominic McIver Lopes discusses the concept of rasa in the work of the 11th-century South Asian philosopher Bhoja. He says rasa is love expressed through art, and engaging with it is a route to self-realization.

Anna-Bella Sicilia argues that love is not "fairness-indifferent". Fairness norms are integral to loving partnerships. This has implications for how we think about gendered distributions of labor in relationships.

Saba Bazargan-Forward argues that when combatants fail to compensate civilians collaterally harmed, they violate the ethics of war. The duty to compensate is part of what makes a strike permissible.

Is hedonic adaptation, getting used to good things, always a flaw? Alex Gregory argues it's often appropriate. Since goodness is unbounded but happiness isn't, the scale of happiness must recalibrate over time.

Why do we have the concept of intentional action? Mikayla Kelley argues it functions as a "prioritizing proxy". It efficiently focusses our evaluative attention on the most normatively significant things agents do.

What gives employers authority over employees? David Owens argues it's not just a contract. Employees "accept agency," a special kind of promise of obedience that legitimates the employer's commands. This explains, among other things, why some people prefer self-employment.

Megan Henricks Stotts says that social institutions aren't constituted by shared mental states. Rather, they're clusters of behavior copied into roles promoting certain results. This explains how institutional reality can "get away from" participants' intentions.

"Static" non-ideal theories of exploitation take structural injustice as a fixed background. Danielle M. Wenner and Derrick F. Gray argue this inadvertently serves an ideological function, reinforcing unjust conditions rather than challenging them.

Are the laws of nature sentences, unstructured propositions, or structured propositions? Heather Demarest and Isaac Wilhelm argue structured propositions are the most promising option for best-system accounts of laws.

Haecceitism says there are genuine possibilities that differ only in which individual plays which role. Alexander Roberts defends this view against the worry that it undermines determinism.

When we see a painting, we're aware of both the depicted scene and the marked surface. Rose Ryan Flinn argues this "twofoldness" is compatible with the unity of pictorial experience, revealing how visual awareness works.

Here's a short thread on the 11 papers we published at @philimprint.bsky.social yesterday.

We are having some technical issues with the philosophersimprint.org redirect page. The main journal site at journals.publishing.umich.edu/phimp/ is still working, but the redirect needs work. We are working on a fix.

The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

One of the most infamous results in mathematics was plagiarized www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...