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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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New Books in May

Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me the following books in May:

Thinking the Impossible:  French Philosophy Since 1960 by Gary Gutting (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Legal Interpretation:  Perspectives from Other Disciplines and Private Texts by Kent Greenawalt (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Thinking with Whitehead:  A Free and Wild Creation of Concepts by Isabelle Stengers (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Civil Society in Liberal Democracy by Mark Jensen (Routledge, 2011).

Conservative Reductionism by Michael Esfeld & Christian Sachse (Routledge, 2011).

Philosophers:  Photographs by Steve Pyke (Oxford University Press, 2011).  Photos of and short quotes about philosophy by Albert, Antony, Appiah, Arneson, Barry, Benacerraf, Block, Boghossian, Brandom, Budd, Burge, Chalmers, the Churchlands, Code, Josh Cohen, Danto, Darwall, Eco, Edgington, Field, K. Fine, Fodor, Frankfurt, Michael Friedman, Gibbard, Glover, Alvin Goldman, Graff Fara, John Gray, E. Harman, G. Harman, Haslanger, Hawthorne, Heck, Hintikka, Hornsby, Horwich, Susan James, Jeshion, Kahneman, Kamm, Kim, Jeff King, the Kitchers, Knobe, Langton, Leiter, LePore, Levi, Levy, Longuenesse, Ludlow, MacFarlane, Maddy, Malament, Marcus, Mike Martin, Maudlin, McGinn, McMahan, Millikan, Moran, Morgenbesser, Mothersill, Neale, Papineau, Ch. Parsons, Railton, Raz, Rorty, G. Rosen, Rumfitt, Scanlon, Schiffer, Schroeder, Scruton, Sider, S. Siegel, P. Singer, Skinner, Michael Smith, Soames, Sober, E. Sosa, Sperber, Stalnaker, Stanley, Stich, G. Strawson, Strevens, Stroud, Suppes, J.J. Thomson, Waldron, Weatherson, Robert Williams, Williamson, S. Wolf, Jo Wolff, Cr. Wright, Yablo, Zizek.

UPDATE:   CHE has published Danto's introduction to the Pyke volume (plus some photos).  (Thanks to Phil Gasper for this link.)

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