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Philosopher’s Annual: Ten Best Papers of 2012

Here are the papers recognized this year; I'll move this to the front when links to the papers are available:

Selections from the literature of 2012: 

Michael Caie, “Belief and Indeterminacy”, Philosophical Review 121 (1), 1-54 

Justin Clarke-Doane, “Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge,” Ethics 122 (2012): 313-340. 

David Enoch, Levi Spectre, & Talia Fisher, “Statistical Evidence, Sensitivity, and the Legal Value of Knowledge,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 40(3), 197-224

Kit Fine, “Guide to Ground” in F. Correia & B. Schneider, eds., Metaphysical Grounding, Cambridge University Press 2012, 8-25

Matthew Kotzen, “Dragging and Confirming,” The Philosophical Review 121(1), 55-93

Marko Malink & Jacob Rosen, “A Method of Modal Proof in Aristotle,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 42, 179-261

Sarah Moss, “On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals,” Noûs 46 (3), 561-586

Jennifer Nagel, “Intuitions and Experiments: A Defense of the Case Method in Epistemology,” Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 85 (3), 495-527

Huw Price, “Causation, Chance, and the Rational Significance of Supernatural Evidence,” Philosophical Review 121 (4), 483-538

Clinton Tolley, “The Generality of Kant's Transcendental Logic”, Journal of the History of Philosophy 50, 417-446

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