My Night with Philosophers

Turns out people in London really want to hear some philosophy talks. Even at 4:30 in the morning.

Trondheim

Trondheim was lovely. And unlike London, it was sunny and warm most of the time. I was in town for the CCCOM conference on context.

All Souls

 I was back in Oggsford to give a talk to a seminar on semantic content.

University of Zuckerman

Nate's awesome APA nametag.

Philosophy Meal Ticket

PLM Conference, Stockholm. More pictures.

Three Stooges

In the Louvre.

Enlightenment Philosopher

Outside King's College chapel at the University of Aberdeen. I'm in town for this conference.

Philosophers at Work

J. Derrida, M. Foucault, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari.

A work by Mounir Fatmi hanging in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs.

Box of Philosophy Books

As mentioned before, I packed up all but one box of philosophy books that I anticipate using this year. For a couple of days I was irrationally afraid that it was lost in the mail, but it finally arrived.

"I want to live again"

Christa customized the labels on some bottles of champagne with quotes from Jay's dissertation for his defense.

Defense

Grad school: 2002-2010.

Plato: Complete Works

I sat in on a couple philosophy classes today to take some pictures for the department website. This is from Agnes's Weakness of the Will class.

DASEIN

On 55th street.

Contextualism

I misremembered the time of Jason's contextualism class and showed up an hour late. When I arrived, the room was empty, and I wondered whether I got the room number wrong. I knew I was in the right place, though, when I found these sentences on the blackboard.

Grice, Austin, Witters, Moore

In Siobhan Chapman's Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist, he cites J.L. Austin's quote "Some like Witters, but Moore's my man". (Though it has been circulating around Chicago's philosophy department for a long time as the superior "Everyone's wild about Witters...".) It occurs on p. 51 of Grice's "Reply to Richards", in Grandy and Warner, eds., Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intention, Categories, Ends:



Chapman also points out that the title of the book where the passage occurs is an acrostic that reads P GRICE.

Color Adjectives

A representation of the meaning of the adjective "green", during a joint meeting of the Wittgenstein Workshop and the Semantics and Philosophy of Language Workshop.

Some Essays on Art and Other Things

Because of its intriguing title, this is the most discussed dissertation in the neo-Anscombe Lounge/Manley Thompson Library.

Photo by Wyeth.

Philosophy Department Party

Another pleasant philosophy department party in the Smart Museum of Art.

Last year's party, from a different angle.

Form of Understanding

In Dan's office in Old Main, Knox College.

Pure Practical Reason

When Jay and I spotted this in the philosophy department seminar room, Jay said, "That's not going to work".