03 Jul TEDx Stanford Talk
http://youtu.be/FLbEKpL-5Z0 Read more at the TEDx Stanford site...
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15 Feb The Ant Trap on Amazon and B&N
The Ant Trap is already available in electronic versions (Kindle and Nook)! Here are the links. Amazon Kindle B&N nook It will be coming out in hardcover in April. Looks as though they're pricing it around $35. Preorder Amazon hardcover ...
15 Feb New York Times – The Stone
Some exciting news! I have a piece coming out tomorrow morning (if no breaking news gets in the way) in the New York Times, in the Stone column. The Times is putting a VERY provocative headline on it -- but keep reading!! It's on the...
11 Dec The proofs are ready!
Here is the typeset version of the intro and table of contents: Epstein - The Ant Trap - Intro and TOC proofs ...
26 Nov The Ant Trap – under contract at Oxford
The signed contract for my new book just arrived in the mail! Here is a draft of the introduction. Comments welcome! The Ant Trap - Intro draft Nov 2013...
09 Aug Summer 2013
Upcoming classes for Fall 2013 are: Philosophy of Social Science, which is an undergrad and graduate class. Using a couple of new texts this term — the new anthology edited by Daniel Steel and Francesco Guala, and the new edition of Alex Rosenberg’s introduction. And the graduate writing...
20 Aug Draft of a new paper challenging standard accounts of shared intentions
Here is a new draft of a paper on shared intentions. Most theorists analyze a group’s shared intention in terms of coordinated individual intentions of the group. And even those who disagree assume that the intention of a group is exhaustively determined by the attitudes...
19 Aug Fall classes
Two new classes for the fall: Phil 103, Logic: This is an undergrad/grad-level class on propositional and predicate logic, translation, and so on. Phil 134, Philosophy of Social Science: This term the class will focus on social ontology, i.e., the nature of the social world. There will be some...
18 Aug Draft of a new paper clarifying two kinds of individualism about social ontology
Many people believe that the social world is “made by” individual people. But there are two entirely different ways philosophers have thought about the relation between individuals and the social world, without really keeping the two separate. Here is a draft of a paper, in...
17 Aug New Analysis paper on how to understand “sortals”
Recently Harold Noonan published a very interesting paper about criteria of identity. There is a traditional distinction, going back to Frege, between the application conditions of a sortal term like ‘tiger’ and its criterion of identity. Noonan argues that this long tradition has made a...
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