I haven’t been going to that many philosophy papers this year, outside of conferences. That’s all about to change. Here’s the schedule for next week:

• Monday – Gerard Cohen, speaking in the political science department at Brown on Facts and Values
• Tuesday – Richard Heck, speaking in the philosophy department at Brown on idiolects
• Wednesday – Noam Chomsky, speaking in the linguistics department at Harvard on the language faculty
• Thursday – Barbard von Eckhardt, speaking in the philosophy department at Brown on systematicity and connectionism
• Friday – Zoltan Szabó, speaking in the philosophy department and MIT on ‘as’ phrases

As well as those, which I really do intend to go to, there is:

• a roundtable on meta-ethics in the political science department at Brown on Tuesday afternoon (from 12 to 6) featuring Cohen, Erin Kelly, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord and Jeremy Waldron
• more Chomsky lectures in linguistics at Harvard on Tuesday (on biolinguistics) and Thursday (on intentionality)
• a paper Monday evening by Robert Figueroa in the Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America at Brown

And there are the two reading groups I sit in on, oh and the six lectures I have to write and give between all the festivities. It’ll be fun, but exhausting.

If blogging is light next week, you now know the reason why.

The week after that looks pretty light – Richard Holton speaking at MIT Friday on strength of will is the only thing I can see that I’ll be going to, but I’ll probably need a break anyway.