I know we have a couple of weeks left in the year, but I'm curious to see what our readers think is the best philosophical work they read they read that was published this year (no nominating oneself, please!;). Here are two pieces I found particularly interesting:

Jeppe von Platz's "Are Economic Liberties Basic Rights?" (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics)

Pietro Maffetyone's "The Coherence and Defensibility of Rawls' Law of Peoples" (PhD dissertation, LSE) 

PhD dissertations aren't usually very good. This one is. Or so say I. What are your nominations?

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3 responses to “Best Philosophical Works of 2013?”

  1. Do works-in-progress count? If so, my vote goes to Doug Portmore’s ‘Consequentialism and Coordination Problems’, available at: https://sites.google.com/site/dwportmore/work-in-progress

  2. Here’s some works I’ve enjoyed…
    (This year I also found a lot of great not-yet-published stuff…but per Marcus’ rules, I didn’t include those)
    Books
    Dennett – Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
    Horwich – Wittgenstein’s Metaphilosophy
    Crane – Objects of Thought
    T. Button – Limits of Realism
    F. Berto – Existence as a Real Property
    Articles
    K. Ritchie – What Are Groups?
    Burge – Putnam’s Contributions to Semantics
    L.A. Paul – What Mary can Expect When She’s Expecting
    J. Heal – Social Anti-Individualism, Co-Cognitivism and 2nd Person Authority
    Moltmann – Semantics of Existence
    M. Blome-Tillmann – Conversational Implicatures (and How to Spot Them)
    U. Kriegel – The Epistemic Challenge to Revisionary Metaphysics

  3. Philosophy of testimony:
    1)Axel Gelfert (2013). Coverage-Reliability, Epistemic Dependence, and the Problem of Rumor-Based Belief. Philosophia 41 (3):763-786.
    2) Axel Gelfert (2013). Hume on Curiosity (article)
    Author. The British Journal for the History of Philosophy.
    Ontology:
    3) Nirmalya Guha (2013). No Black Scorpion is Falling: An Onto-Epistemic Analysis of Absence. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 41:111–131.
    Free will:
    4) Matthew R. Dasti and Edwin F. Bryant (eds.) (2013). Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy. Oxford University Press.

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