Like many of you I've missed Weatherson's recent online philosophy papers blog. (It hasn't been updated since before the Christmas holidays. He says however that other commitments are coming to an end shortly. So perhaps we'll get to see it again. It certainly is a good resource. In the meantime folks might want to recall the philosophy paper repository that was set up a little while back. There have been some interesting papers. Here are a few that caught my eye.
One is a critique of Four-Dimensionalism by Matthew Davidson. An other one is an analysis of indeterminism in neuro-biology. Both these are rather tied to various posts I've made the past few months regarding the free will debate.
I may bring up a few others of interest over the next few days - once I've finished reading these.
It's not really worth putting in its own page, but Stanford has up the article on internalism and externalism in justification. I've discussed this topic a fair bit here, although never directly. I've been an externalist for a fair bit of time now. I simply think it resolves most problems and further it seems implied by the kind of holism I think necessary to make sense of a lot of problems. (Holism is a significant position held by figures such as Peirce, Heidegger, Derrida, Quine, Davidson and others)
I should add that I think most kinds of justification that are worth discussing end up being internal in nature. Yet there are always those premises which seems primarily grounded externally. The alternative seems to move more towards a variation on empiricism which I just can't buy.
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