The Ethical Werewolf ‡ by Neil Sinhababu

Neil Sinhababu's philosophy and politics blog, 2004-2015 ‡ neiladri, at gmail dot com

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

First and final post

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Back in July 2004, when I was a grad student at UT-Austin, I started a blog called "The Ethical Werewolf" . I wrote mostly about...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

"The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking and Safety" in Journal of Philosophy

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I got some good news a little while ago from the  Journal of Philosophy , which accepted "The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking and Safet...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Eternal return tickets for one-way fares?

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Does Uber have a customer loyalty program? I'd ride it a lot if I could reach Ubermensch status.
Friday, April 24, 2015

Werewolf Down Under

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This July I'll visit my friends in the land of paraconsistent logic, kangaroos, and utilitarianism! Sydney with friend-colleague-roomma...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Divine Fine-Tuning vs. Electrons in Love

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My first Valentine's Day surprise was that Dylan Matthews had written a delightful article in Vox about Possible Girls . The second wa...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

At least they got around to it

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From Piers Steel's 2007 paper, "The Nature of Procrastination": "Readers interested in the history of procrastination mi...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure

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The National University of Singapore has just awarded me tenure, and promoted me to Associate Professor. Philosophy is the most exciting t...
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Monday, January 05, 2015

If there are actual ingredients that we can use to make this, it should be possible

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Does anyone know if Ruth Barcan Marcus had a favorite drink? I've been thinking that there should be a cocktail called the Barcan Formu...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Heideggerianism about propositions

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I've never figured out whether to be a Fregean or a Russellian about propositions, but Heidegger's view doesn't seem like a goo...
Thursday, October 30, 2014

The Amazing X(ϕ)-Men!

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Thanks to Jessica Berry for setting up my talk at Georgia State on Friday. It was wonderful talking with everyone about the psychology of m...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Resemblance and Representation by Ben Blumson, available for free!

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My colleague Ben Blumson's book on depiction, Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures , has just come ou...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Aaiiieeeedentity theory

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I see why many philosophers seek alternatives to mind-body dualism. But the behaviorist view that being in pain is nothing more than exhibi...
Saturday, July 19, 2014

My NDPR review of "The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche": It's good!

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It's up at NDPR now . First paragraph: Containing 32 essays and weighing 3.5 pounds, this volume is in every sense a massive contribu...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

High Table for the Joint Session

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The elevated "High Table" at Cambridge offends my egalitarian sensibilities, but I wish we could've eaten there during dinner...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

My laptop tastes like aluminum

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If people who lick a computer think it's human, it has passed the Turing Taste Test.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Tolkien-reflexivity

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If Galadriel had said "What I'm saying now is not true" in The Fellowship of the Ring, it would've created a paradox of e...

See you at the Joint Session!

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I've signed up for the Joint Session of the Mind Association / Aristotelian Society at Cambridge, and also for the philosophy of science...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Faculty Fellowship at Murphy Institute

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From late August 2014 to April 2015, I'll be a Faculty Fellow at Tulane's Murphy Institute ! This will be an awesome opportunity ...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

No form of decision theory suggests biting the Predictor's ear

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It'd be neat to present Mike Tyson, Manny Pacquiao, and Floyd Mayweather with Newcomb's problem. If Tyson didn't disqualify him...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day!

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Mary sees red; Hume fancies blue. Possible sweethearts  Love all of you.  If p and not p Entails every q, All impossibilia Are now ...
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