[Update: I am moving this back to the top because the discussion is intensifying, while the contributions maintain a very high standard of quality (and tone).--ES]
Erkenntnis is giving free access to a thorough review by James Ladyman of Maudlin's (2007) book. Ladyman does not use the review to settle points or advocate his own views. But the review ends with: "The book closes with an epilogue in which Maudlin inveighs against metaphysical debates based on intuitions about what is and is not possible, such as the debates about time travel and the debate about homogeneous rotating discs." I used to share this sentiment (and inveighed on its behalf regularly). But Katherine Hawley (and time at Syracuse) has convinced me that the community of intuition driven analytic metaphysicians has important neo-scholastic virtues and distinctions worth preserving. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be more responsive to concerns of Ladyman and Maudlin.... UPDATE: the link to Ladyman's article: http://www.springerlink.com/content/xh42587001l0712t/fulltext.pdf
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