Week Four

It's the fourth and final week of the OPC.  The first three weeks have been pretty successful with nearly 20,000 page views and several very active and productive exchanges of ideas.  This week we have even more papers than in the previous weeks, so surely there will be a few papers that catch your eye.  We look forward to once again hearing from everyone in the comment threads!  For now, we wanted to thank you for playing along in this on-line experiment.  We are well aware that things could have been both easier to navigate and more sophisticated technologically speaking.  Next year we hope to have fewer papers--so that each paper gets the attention it deserves--and perhaps some audio and audio/video files for people to download.  Minimally, we would like to kick off the conference with a web-cast of a paper being read.  For now, we are open to suggestions concerning how to improve things in ways that maximally utilize the on-line format.  A number of people have already given us some good ideas (e.g., using links to message boards, papers all converted to html, audio-video files, chat rooms, and webcam chats, to name a few).  We look forward to hearing more suggestions.  In the meantime, we wanted to thank you once again for playing along.  Hopefully, it's been both fun and beneficial to everyone.

Week Four:

Thom Brooks (Newcastle University), “On Retributivism,” with commentary by Michael David (Illinois Institute of Technology)

Tyler Doggett (University of Vermont) & Andy Egan (University of Michigan & ANU), "Imagination, Desire, Affect and Action,” with commentary by Tamar Gendler (Yale University)

R.A. Duff (University of Stirling), “Virtue Jurisprudence,” with commentary by Lawrence Solum (University of Illinois—Law)

Elizabeth Harman (Princeton University), "The Mistake in "I'll Be Glad I Did It" Reasoning:  The Significance of Future Desires,” with commentary by Brook Sadler (University of South Florida)

Terence Horgan (University of Arizona), “Materialism: Matters of Definition, Defense, and Deconstruction,” with commentary by Thomas Polger (University of Cincinnati)

Adam Pautz (University of Texas—Austin),  “Externalist Intentionalism and Optimal Conditions: A Comment on Byrne and Tye,” with commentary by Bill Lycan (University of North Carolina)

Susanna Siegel (Harvard University), “The Visual Experience of Causation,” with commentary by Sarah McGrath (Brandeis University)

Sharon Street (New York University), “Evolution and the Schizophrenia of Quasi-Realism About Normativity,” with commentary by David Enoch (Hebrew University)

Jason Turner (Rutgers University), “On How Things Are,” with commentary by David Manley (University of Southern California)

Brian Weatherson (Cornell University), “Conditionals and Relativism,” with commentary by Gillian Russell (Washington—St. Louis)

Kit Wellman (Washington-St. Louis), “Immigration and Freedom of Association,” with commentary by Fernando Teson (Florida State University—Law)