More Reasons to Celebrate: Gardeners Rockin’!

To join in the celebration of the Garden's third anniversary, let me announce two big pub coups by Gardeners:

Neal Tognazzini has a new paper, "The Hybrid Nature of Promissory Obligation", forthcoming in Philosophy and Public Affairs. Congrats to Neal!

John M. Fischer, whose name shines in the firmament of Moral Responsibility (yes, the booze makes my writing corny, but aren't we all still toasting?), and -- again! -- Neal Tognazzini, penned "Exploring Evil and Philosophical Failure: A Critical Notice of Peter van Inwagen’s The Problem of Evil", forthcoming in Faith and Philosophy.

Comments

[Neil]

While we're on the subject of pub coups (and a little something to keep you occupied), the latest issue of Phil Q is now on the web, with two Gardeners - Tamler Sommers tellning us why the objective attitude isn't that bad (can't blame him for that) and John Fischer's riposte to Dan Speak.

[Tamler Sommers]

Thanks for the promo Neil.

Speaking of which, a Master's student from one of the UK universities (I can't remember which one) recently sent me a long thoughtful email about that article while I was traveling in Australia. But then--thanks to jet lag and nitrogen narcosis--I accidentally deleted the email before getting the name. I feel terrible about not replying, so if you're out there and you read this blog (and you should) please send me the email again. Thanks.

[Manuel Vargas]

Congrats to all!

[Gustavo Llarull]

Hey Neil, thanks for the info. Tamler: Congrats!!! Man, I should've known this, so that you would have been in the firmament (of my post) too!

How about Gardeners notify the Coordinators (i.e., Neal and yours truly) when they have an upcoming pub/talk/etc.? Not that we'll clog the blog with these announcements, but at least, every once in a while, when we do make these pride-displaying announcements, we'll have a more complete list (and you'll save me the embarrassment of today, that is, leaving Tamler out!).

[Fritz Warfield]

Because the article will likely make at least a few people angry, let me self-promtingly call attention to my "Metaphysical Compatibilism's Appropriation of Frankfurt" which appears in the just published 3rd volume of Oxford Studies in Metaphysics.

[John Fischer]

Let me put it this way: I don't recommend Fritz's article as a complete and comprehensive discussion of the best arguments on behalf of Frankfurt-style compatibilism! But, as always, it is interesting and provocative.

I want to congratulate Fritz Warfield warmly for his recent promotion to Full Professor at the University of Notre Dame. This is well-deserved. Thanks also for all of your great contributions to the GFP.

[Fritz Warfield]

Thanks John, for the remark about the article and the (unnecessary and slightly embarrassing) note about the internal promotion.

The article is indeed no survey: at a few points in the article I encourage those who need a survey to get up to speed with your 1999 overview article and then to follow the literature forward in its various strands from there. That's certainly the fast track into these debates for those new on the scene.

The article even suggests one way to use Frankfurt-style examples to work towards your "semi-compatibilism". Though I don't endorse this move, it is a new flirtation for me.

[John Fischer]

Fritz: keep flirting. We'll try for the seduction later.

[John Fischer]

Out two founders/organizers have won two new awards.
Gustavo LLarull has won the David Harrah award (at UCR) for an essay on applied philosophy. Neal Tognazzini has won a (prestigious) Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship at UCR.

Congratulations to Neal and Gustavo!!