January 2009

David Chalmers has organized PhilPapers, a great new online resource for philosophers. PhilPapers describes itself as "a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers." Chalmers explains it in more detail. (I've added PhilPapers to the Postgrad Wiki.)

I was very amused to read this diagnosis of several fallacies in a comment on someone's blog.

You may be wondering what has happened to the Philos-L posts that appeared here daily before Christmas. I plan to bring these back asap, once I have automated the process for posting them. To do that, I'll need to brush up on my php coding skills.

What advice would you give to someone just starting their Masters or PhD? The most obvious advice I can think of is to join the Philosophy in Europe mailing list, otherwise known as Philos-L (http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html). But what advice would you give? What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started?! The best advices collected here will eventually be transferred to our postgrad wiki.

Get [and post] your philosophy-related and quite probably epistemically irresponsible philosophy gossip here.

Robert Brandom has claimed that Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit is the forerunner of normative inferentialism. It would come to no surprise that this is a very contentious interpretation of the 1806 work.