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Discussion of PhilPapers
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Bug reports -- 289 118 Order of Authors, posted yesterday by Joshua May
PhilPapers News 11312 69 12 Survey results now available, posted 2009-12-08 by David Bourget
Discussion of PhilPapers, Misc -- 103 25 Projected developments, posted 2010-03-12 by Richard Brown
The Categorization Project -- 40 10 Where are new categories needed?, posted yesterday by Nathan Wildman
PhilPapers Surveys -- 136 19 Discussions of Survey results elsewhere on the web, posted 2010-01-10 by Carlo Penco
Help Forum -- 19 10 Unable to read/download papers, posted 2010-01-19 by Adam Knott
Philosophy, Misc
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Philosophy, Misc 150 55 2 Major philosophical issues that have been conclusively solved?, posted 2009-12-27 by Derek Allan
Metaphysics and Epistemology
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Epistemology 2075 92 13 Essential Epistemology: 1900-1950, posted 2010-03-16 by Julien Dutant
Metaphilosophy 847 52 6 What are your pure research goals?, posted 2009-12-29 by Liam Bright
Metaphysics 1920 38 13 Fitch's 'On Kripke and Statements', posted 2010-03-14 by Laureano Luna
Philosophy of Action 831 7 3 Free Will, posted 2010-03-12 by Hugh Chandler
Philosophy of Language 1703 116 14 Fitch's 'On Kripke and Statements', posted 2010-03-14 by Laureano Luna
Philosophy of Mind 2568 911 21 The 'Explanatory Gap', posted 2010-03-16 by Stevan Harnad
Philosophy of Religion 1133 110 4 Have I got this right?, posted 2010-02-24 by Peter Jones
M&E, Misc 156 13 2 Qualia and Creationism, posted 2009-12-08 by Jim Stone
Value Theory
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Aesthetics 761 83 2 Philosophy of Art, posted 2010-03-14 by Dilys Marsden
Applied Ethics 1051 1 1 Subject payments & insurance in medical research, posted 2009-12-23 by Jim Krug
Meta-Ethics 1198 2 1 MLE seminar comments, posted 2009-09-12 by Matthew Arnatt
Normative Ethics 1178 1 1 Normative factors, posted 2009-12-01 by Susana Teixeira
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality 489 0 0 Nothing in this forum yet.
Philosophy of Law 638 1 1 New Book by Raz, posted 2009-04-22 by Lawrence B. Solum
Social and Political Philosophy 1635 4 1 Machine Rights, posted 2009-12-01 by Eddie Black
Value Theory, Miscellaneous 253 5 2 new book collecting images of contemporary art installations, posted 2009-08-02 by Matthew Arnatt
Philosophical Traditions
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African/Africana Philosophy 146 0 0 Nothing in this forum yet.
Asian Philosophy 450 1 1 Agamic Tanricism, posted 2009-04-06 by Dr. Priyavrat Shukla
Continental Philosophy 802 354 2 The analytic/continental divide, posted yesterday by Jeffrey White
European Philosophy 451 0 0 Nothing in this forum yet.
Philosophy of the Americas 151 0 0 Nothing in this forum yet.
Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous 88 2 1 What is Anglophone Philosophy?, posted 2010-01-15 by Jason Streitfeld