This one was a little embarrassing.

The first philosophy colloquia for the year, Frank Arntzenius speaking on “Gunk”, is this afternoon at 3.30pm. This isn’t the mistake, in fact it’s a very good thing.

The first cog sci colloquia for the year, Steven Sloman speaking on causal and conditional reasoning, is this afternnon at 4pm. This isn’t the mistake either, in fact it’s a very good thing.

The mistake, as you may have gathered, is the conjunction. We shouldn’t have ended up with clashes like this.

I’ve got an idea for how to avoid these problems. First, we make sure the departments have a faculty member in common, so there’s communication between the two. Second, we make that faculty member responsible for setting the times for the colloquia at one end, because (s)he knows when will be a non-clashing time. Third, we check that faculty member passed remedial calendar management, so no pooches end up getting, er, well you know the picture.

Well, we did steps one and two right, but not step three, and I feel rather silly.

For future reference, here’s the list of upcoming philosophy talks. And here’s the to-be-completed list of cog sci talks. And here’s a site that makes calendars.

UPDATE: I corrected the time of Frank’s talk. More mistakes were made.