Connie Rosati argues that storytelling helps us to "secure a relatively ongoing relation of fit to our lives and to ourselves as the author/protagonist of those lives." But only in part, because "the way that we secure a fit with ourselves and our lives is, in the first instance, by doing what it takes to provide the materials from which attractive stories can be constructed."
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Wide Scope Introducing Wide Scope Philosophy Podcasts
Andy announces his new project, wherein he highlights some of the more interesting new articles in the week's philosophy journals and describes them in a brief podcast.
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The PhilPapers Survey and MetaSurvey Info is In
Find out how views in the profession break down on key issues, and also how we *think* the profession breaks down...
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Is blind review blind?

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Survey on Publishing in Philosophy
Sally Haslanger (MIT) has a survey she'd like professional, publishing philosophers to take. Leiter reports on it and provides the link.
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Quips About Philosophy

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The Disenchanted Naturalist’s Guide to Reality
Alex Rosenberg's "précis of an argument that naturalism forces upon us a very disillusioned 'take' on reality."
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TeXlive 2009 released
After a long testing period, TeXlive 2009 was released yesterday. This is a great LaTeX and XeLaTeX distribution for every OS.
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Are Undergrads Good Samples for Experimental Philosophy?

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Grade Student Papers Using Google Forms

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Graduate Programs for X-phi
This list of schools is for undergraduate students who are interested in experimental philosophy and want to pursue a graduate degree.
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DexTeXifty - draw a symbol, get a LaTeX code
If nothing else, this is just plain amusing. For philosophers using LaTeX, who need a symbol code, but are too lazy or impatient to look through symbols-letter or symbols-a4.pdf? Draw a symbol, get a code, here!
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Qualitative experience in machines
Philosopher Bill Lycan defends the thesis that problems with qualitative experiences in machines apply equally to humans.
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Wave for Philosophers
Andy talks about some of the potential uses of Google Wave for philosophers and academics.
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The Monads
This page has all the classics, plus three new tracks from the 21st Century Monads.
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Doris & Prinz Review Appiah's Experiments in Ethics
John Doris and Jesse Prinz have a nice review of Anthony Appiah's book Experiments in Ethics over at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
The review focuses on Appiah's discussion of character and of ethical intuitions and then concludes with a suggestion that 'empirical work demands a reconstruction of morality.'
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October JFP
Leiter reports the initial stats on the latest Jobs for Philosophers. (Spoiler: It doesn't look good so far.)
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Arguments from Disagreement
Challenges the claim that intuitions about genuine disagreement show anything about sameness of meanings of terms or sameness of concepts involved.
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"Philosophical Duals" at Columbia
Columbia is having their faculty duke it out.
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PEA Soup: Against Actualism
Interesting post, and perhaps even more interesting comment thread, about Jackson and Pargetter's actualism about obligation.
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