Andy Egan’s thesis defence went very well yesterday, and the post-game celebrations went so well, or at least so long, that I am a little shaky on the keyboard this morning, er, afternoon.

So rather than adding to the world’s stock of philosophical knowledge, I’ll just report one very cool thing. The Cloning paper that Sarah and I wrote got accepted to the ethics conference being held at Baton Rouge just before Mardi Gras. Andy’s submission to that conference got accepted, as did Liz’s, so the MIT-Brown crew from last year’s conference will all be back there. (Labelling warning: none of the ‘MIT people’ in this group are officially MIT affiliated any more, but it’s a convenient and not too misleading label.) The conference was a bunch of fun last year and very informative – the organisers did a fantastic job I thought – so I’m really looking forward to this year’s conference.