Just a small reminder that although posting here has been light, the “papers blog”:http://opp.weatherson.org is running at full speed (and then some) thanks to Jonathan Ichikawa. It seems many people are using their summer vacations to work on papers and update web pages, so there’s a lot there to check out.

Just a small reminder that although posting here has been light, the “papers blog”:http://opp.weatherson.org is running at full speed (and then some) thanks to Jonathan Ichikawa. It seems many people are using their summer vacations to work on papers and update web pages, so there’s a lot there to check out.

One new blog and a new philosophy site below the fold. In both cases the text is taken largely from emails I was sent annoucing the sites in question.
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The Arizona philosophy blog “Desert Landscapes”:http://www.arizonaphilosophy.com/ is up and running with several ethics posts and a (sort of) comedy post. Another blog to add to the list!

The Arizona philosophy blog “Desert Landscapes”:http://www.arizonaphilosophy.com/ is up and running with several ethics posts and a (sort of) comedy post. Another blog to add to the list!

The UCR Philosophy Department has started a new blog, run by two grad. students, Gustavo Llarull and Neal Tognazinni, devoted to such topics as Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and so forth. The address is: “http://gfp.typepad.com/”:http://gfp.typepad.com/. Thanks to John Fisher for the link and, since I’m not able to write much copy from the road, most of the test for this post.

I’d forgotten what CNY weather can be like. Right now I’m stuck at Syracuse airport because a huge storm just effectively shut the airport for a few hours. Now it’s clear blue skies and (apart from the soaked ground) looks as little like stormy weather as could be imagined. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it to London tomorrow and then Budapest tomorrow. I’ve been so pampered by the existence of visa waiver programs everywhere that I forgot to check whether Australia and Hungary had such an agreement. The bad news: Australia is about the only country in the western world where you need a visa to get into Hungary. The good news: these visa are issued at the airport. The better news: I found out about this in just enough time to get passport photos for said visa.At this stage the probability of successful travel is over 90%, which might not have been true at various times today.