When I was a grad student I visited ANU for a while, at which time there were as smart a collection of grad students there as you are likely to find in a philosophy program at any given point in time. (You can see where some of them have moved on to here, here, here and here.) While the grad students there had for the most part relatively orthodox views about the content of philosophical papers (albeit with original argumnts for that content) they could often hold strange views about their form. Thus it became that the department there became the second important philosophical movement to have a credo.
And so it became that Henry Fitzgerald wrote up a short note on what nominalists do and don’t believe in, to the tune of a Richard Rogers song.
And now, to their credit, Analysis has published said song. (I briefly considered writing a paper in the form of a catechism, both as homage to this sylistic idiosyncracy and to get the whole Joyce kick that’s been influencing my recent papers, and which I suppose goes to absurd lengths in the to-be-published fiction paper, over and done with, but I thought better of it. For now.)

When I saw that Analysis I saw Henry had a paper called “Nominalist Things” in the latest Analysis I just assumed that the song I remembered from grad school days had somehow morphed into a traditional paper. So it was still on my ever-growing to-be-read pile. Hence I got beaten to the citation of it by Chris Bertram. (And I was beaten to the citation of it by Eve Tushnet on his comments board.) Much thanks then to Chris for alerting us all to this gem. And again much thanks to Analysis for publishing it. Philosophy can be many things, but among other things it should be fun. And when you can make some points in the process of having fun, as I sort of think Henry’s ditty does, all the better.