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Our goal is to select the ten best articles published in philosophy each year—an attempt as simple to state as it is admittedly impossible to fulfill. Against a background of twenty-four volumes in hard copy, the Annual is now available entirely online.

This year's selections:

VOLUME 31


Editors

Patrick Grim, Chloe Armstrong, Billy Dunaway & Robin Zheng


Thanks to Richard and Carolyn Lineback and the
Philosopher's Information Center
for generous support of the Annual's graduate student Editors.




Introduction



“Necessary Connections and the Problem of Induction”
Helen Beebee
from Nous 45 (2011), 504-527

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“Consequentialize This”
Campbell Brown
from Ethics 121 (2011), 749-771

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“Rules and Reasons in the Theory of Precedent”
John F. Horty
from Legal Theory 17 (2011), 1-33

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“The Concept of Unified Agency in Nietzsche, Plato, and Schiller”
Paul Katsafanas
from Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2011), 87-113

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“Simple Generics”
David Liebesman
from Nous 45 (2011), 409-442

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“Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics: A Maxwellian View”
Wayne C. Myrvold
from Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 42 (2011), 237-243

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“Theory Choice and Social Choice: Kuhn vs. Arrow”
Samir Okasha
from Mind 120 (2011), 83-115

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“Rational Self Doubt and the Failure of Closure”
Joshua Schechter
from Philosophical Studies September 30, 2011

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“Ought, Agents, and Actions”
Mark Schroeder
from Philosophical Review 120 (2011), 1-41

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“Ontological Nihilism”
Jason Turner
in Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman (eds.),
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 6
Oxford University Press (2011), 2-54

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Nominating Editors

Rachel Barney
J.C. Beall
Ned Block
Ben Bradley
Tyler Burge
David Chalmers
Andrew Chignell
David Christensen
Gregory Currie
David Danks
Keith DeRose
Cian Dorr
Lisa Downing
Julia Driver
Adam Elga
Brandon Fitelson
Owen Flanagan
Marilyn Friedman
Stacie Friend
Tamar Szabo Gendler
Alan Hajek
Ned Hall
Elizabeth Harman
Gary Hatfield
Allen Hazen
Benj Hellie
Christopher Hitchcock
Des Hogan
Brad Inwood
Simon Keller
Tom Kelly
Joshua Knobe
Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Marc Lange
Brian Leiter
Neil Levy
Martin Lin
Peter Ludlow
Ishani Maitra
Shaun Nichols
Paul Noordhof
Derk Pereboom
Jim Pryor
Greg Restall
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Richard Scheines
Mark Schroeder
Laura Schroeter
Ted Sider
Michael Slote
Scott Soames
Roy Sorensen
Peter Spirtes
Jason Stanley
Johan van Benthem
Mark van Roojen
Achille Varzi
Peter B. M. Vranas
Ted Warfield
Eric Watkins
Sam Wheeler
Jim Woodward
Gideon Yaffe



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