On Saturday, we had the fourth meeting of a journal reading group that I organized with the graduate students here at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The group is keeping up with the most recent issues of the Philosophical Review, the Journal of Philosophy, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, Mind, and Nous.
In previous meetings, Adam Bowen and Ian Harmon presented essays from the September issue of Philosophical Studies, including Stalnaker's "Precis" and several essays responding to that piece. Kristin Seemuth presented "Animals, Identity, and Persistence," by Belshaw, and Steven Lee presented "The No-No Paradox Is a Paradox," by Cook: both from the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. This past Saturday, Dan Meyer presented "Scientific Explanation and Moral Explanation," by Leibowitz, in Nous. And Carry Osborne presented "Seeing Through the Veil of Perception," by Silins, in Mind.
Coming up later this semester, I will be presenting on Liebesman's paper, "Simple Generics," from Nous, and Dan will be presenting on another paper from Nous: Stang's piece, "Did Kant Conflate the Necessary and the A Priori."
We will be using this blog space to keep a record of what we read in the group, to post reactions to the readings, and to discuss the readings both among ourselves (again) and with the wider philosophical community. Anyone and everyone is invited to participate in the online component of our reading group.
So, let the reviewing begin.
