I just got back from a fun week away, first in Hobart and then in Canberra. I took a lot of pictures, and hopefully I’ll post some when I get back to America.

I did two talks in Canberra, and in only one of them did every substantive claim I make get comprehensively refuted in questions, which has to count as a success given the quality of the questioners there! While I was away some announcements piled up.

As most hip cats will be aware by now, “David Chalmers has a blog”:http://fragments.consc.net/. That will certainly go on the RSS feed.

Jeff Helzner alerted me to the “Fourth International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and their Applications”:http://www.sipta.org/isipta05/ to be held in Pittsburgh over July 20-23. If I weren’t teaching I would be trying to get myself on the program.

And a reminder of the three interesting conferences I’ve already spruiked this year.

* “The Barcelona Workshop on Relativising Truth”:http://tar.weatherson.org/archives/004078.html
* “Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference 2005”:http://www.ac.wwu.edu/%7Earistos/BSPC6/BSPC6.html
* “Formal Epistemology Workshop 2005”:http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Efitelson/few/

As well of getting a ton of hits (and interesting comments) on the Problem of Evil and Jobs in Philosophy posts (over 2500 on each!) I got a ton of comment spam over the time I was away. It’s all remarkably unpleasant, and I want to rain curses down from on high on the purely evil people who sell software to promote this kind of spam.