ONLINE PAPERS

NED BLOCK

Please see Professor Block's web page for a list of papers.

PAUL BOGHOSSIAN

• "Analyticity Reconsidered", Nous, August 1996.
• "What the Externalist Can Know A Priori"
• "What the Sokal Hoax Ought To Teach Us", from the Times Literary Supplement, December 13, 1996; link is from John Walsh's The Sokal Affair web page.

RONALD DWORKIN

• "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief", by Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson.
• "Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Believe It", reprinted from Philosophy & Public Affairs 25, no. 2, Spring 1996.
• "Posner's Charges: What I Actually Said"

HARTRY FIELD

• "Causation in a Physical World", in M. Loux and D. Zimmerman, eds., Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press 2003). [PDF]
• "Mathematical Undecidables, Metaphysical Realism and Equivalent Descriptions", forthcoming in a Library of Living Philosophers volume for Hilary Putnam. [PDF]
• "A Revenge-Immune Solution to the Semantic Paradoxes", Journal of Philosophical Logic, April 2003. [PDF]
• "Is the Liar Sentence Both True and False?", forthcoming in Beall and Armour-Garb, eds., Deflationism and Paradox (Oxford University Press 2004). [PDF]
• "The Semantic Paradoxes and the Paradoxes of Vagueness", in Beall and Glanzberg, eds., Liars and Heaps (Oxford University Press 2003), pp. 262-311. [PDF]
• "No Fact of the Matter", in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2003, pp. 457-480. [PDF]
• "The Consistency of the Naive Theory of Properties", The Philosophical Quarterly, January 2004, pp. 78-104. [PDF]
• "Recent Debates about the A Priori", forthcoming in Gendler and Hawthorne, eds., Oxford Studies in Epistemology (Oxford University Press 2005). [PDF]
• "Variations on a Theme by Yablo", forthcoming in Beall and Armour-Garb, eds., Deflationism and Paradox (Oxford University Press 2004). [PDF]
• "Solving the Paradoxes, Escaping Revenge", forthcoming. [PDF]

KIT FINE

• "Cantorian Abstraction: A Reconstruction and Defence" [PDF]
• "Essence and Modality" [PDF]
• "The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and its Matter" [PDF]
• "The Problem of Possibilia" [PDF]
• "A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form" [PDF]
• "The Varieties of Necessity" [PDF]
• "Aristotle's Megarian Maneuvers" [PDF]

ELIZABETH HARMAN

• "The Potentiality Problem", Philosophical Studies, May 2003. [PDF]

PHILLIP MITSIS

• "The Stoic Origin of Natural Rights" in Ierodiakonou, ed., Topics in Stoic Philosophy, Oxford 1999, pp. 153-177. [PDF]
• "Locke's Offices" in Miller and Inwood, eds., Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy, Cambridge 2003, pp. 45-61. [PDF]
• "The Institutions of Hellenistic Philosophy" in A. Erskine, ed., The Hellenistic World (Oxford 2003), pp. 464-476. [PDF]
• "The Stoics and Aquinas on Virtue and Natural Law" Studia Philonica 15 (2003), pp. 35-53. [PDF]

LIAM MURPHY

• "Institutions and the Demands of Justice" Reprinted from Philosophy & Public Affairs 27, no. 4, fall 1998: 251-291. Copyright 1998 by Princeton University Press. For permission to reproduce and distribute this article for course use, visit the web site http://pup.pupress.princeton.edu. [PDF]

THOMAS NAGEL

• "Concealment and Exposure"
• "Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem" [PDF]
• "The Psychophysical Nexus" [PDF]
• "The Problem of Global Justice" This is an electronic version of an article published in Philosophy & Public Affairs. Complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Philosophy & Public Affairs, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/papa or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com. [PDF]

WILLIAM RUDDICK

• "Do Doctors Undertreat Pain?"
• "Medical Ethics"
• "Parenthood: Three Concepts and a Principle"

STEPHEN SCHIFFER

• "Paradox and the A Priori", forthcoming in Tamar Szabo Gendler and John Hawthorne, eds., Oxford Studies in Epistemology I (2005). [PDF]
• "A Problem for a Direct-Reference Theory of Belief Reports" forthcoming in Noûs. [PDF]
• "Russell's Theory of Definite Descriptions", forthcoming in a special edition of Mind, guest editor Stephen Neale, celebrating the 100th anniversary of "On Denoting". [PDF]
• "Skepticism and the Vagaries of Justified Belief", Philosophical Studies 119 (2004): 161-184. [PDF]
• "Propositional Content", forthcoming in E. Lepore and B. Smith (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. [PDF]

SHARON STREET

• "A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value", (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies, March 2006). [PDF]

PETER UNGER

• "Contextual Analysis in Ethics", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume LV, 1995.
• "The Mystery of the Physical and the Matter of Qualities: A Paper for Professor Shaffer" Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXIII, 1999. [PDF]
• "The Survival of the Sentient", Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 14, 2000. [PDF]
• "Free Will and Scientificalism", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 65, 2002. [PDF]
• "The Mental Problems of the Many", a (slightly) more polished draft will appear in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 1, edited by Dean Zimmerman, 2004. [PDF]

ROGER WHITE

• "Explanation as a Guide to Induction" [PDF]
• "The Epistemic Advantage of Prediction Over Accommodation"[PDF]
• "Fine-tuning and Multiple Universes" [PDF]
• "Postscript to Fine-tuning and Multiple Universes" [PDF]
• "Problems for Dogmatism" forthcoming in Philosophical Studies [PDF]
• "Why Favour Simplicity?" forthcoming in Analysis [PDF]

CRISPIN WRIGHT

• "(Anti-)Sceptics Simple and Subtle: Moore and McDowell" [PDF]
• "The Conceivability of Naturalism", to appear in Tamar Gendler and John O'Leary-Hawthorne, eds. Imagination, Conceivability and Possibility, Oxford University Press. [PDF]
• "Neo-Fregean Foundations for Real Analysis: Some Reflections" [PDF]
• Postscript to Mind and World to appear in Nicholas Smith, ed. Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, Routledge. [PDF]
• "Some Reflections on the Acquisition of Warrant by Inference" [PDF]
• "What Could Anti-Realism about Ordinary Psychology Possibly Be?" [PDF]
• "Wittgensteinian Certainties" to appear in Denis McManus, ed. Wittgenstein and Scepticism, Routledge. [PDF]

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