The “papers blog for today”:http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/Opp/Archives/002803.html is posted with papers on quantum approaches to consciousness, Desargues’ Theorem and, most interestingly, “argument contained ellipsis”:http://www.ling.northwestern.edu/~kennedy/Docs/ace-revisited1.4.pdf.

“Polly Jacobson”:http://www.cog.brown.edu/People/jacobson/ has been doing some interesting work on this phenomenon, and I half-expected her talk at NYU this afternoon might on this topic, which would be been a happy coincidence. But it’s on “Direct Compositionality and Principle B Effects”:http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/lingu/events/colloquium/2004-spring/abstract/jacobson.html, which is also very interesting stuff. I don’t know how common it is for philosophers to turn up to linguistics talks at NYU, but I think this talk should be well worthwhile for anyone working on questions in the more formal parts of philosophy of language.