Abstract

At the 2007 Eastern APA in Baltimore, the last time that many of us saw Peter Hare, I was sitting next to him at the William James Society session. Like many young philosophers at the beginning of their careers, I was eager to be associated with my well-known and respected dissertation advisor. Throughout the course of the talk I looked over at Peter's handout and saw that he had written the word "flexibility" in the upper right-hand corner of his paper. As the talk progressed the word "flexibility" became surrounded by an increasing number of circles and underlines. During the question period Peter queried the speaker about how flexibility might be associated with the talk that was just given. After the talk ..