* There is a lot happening at the “APA Pacific”:http://72.14.203.104/search?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fapa-pacific.org%2Fcurrent%2Fprogram.pdf&btnG=Search. On Saturday morning I have to choose between going to Andy’s session on relativism (the first of two 3-hour sessions on relativism), and going to watch the discussion of Scott Soames’s books on the history of analytic philosophy. I’ll certainly be going to the second relativism session that afternoon, which will probably mean I’m too tired after that either to go and see “Liz”:http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/elizabethharman talk about sacred mountains or, more to the point of this blog, go and hear about “conditionalisation”:http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002212/.
* There’s a very interesting discussion of use theories of meaning going on over at “Leiter’s place”:http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/the_use_theory_.html
* They also have the annual “tenure track hiring report”:http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2006/03/tenuretrack_hir.html
* I was recently interviewed by the Cornell newspaper about “the status of the Sage School”:http://www.cornellsun.com/media/paper866/news/2006/03/09/News/Cornell.Loses.Philosophy.Profs-1661148.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.cornellsun.com and was amusingly misquoted about the influence of small European countries on the Sage School’s history. (And I meant to be thinking of the Sage School as being like an NBA team that always makes the playoffs, not an NFL team that does, but that was my fault not the journalist’s.)
* I’ve been meaning to write about Kieran Setiya’s “post on asides”:http://ideasofimperfection.blogspot.com/2006/02/footnotes.html but it is looking less and less likely that I will, so I’m linking to it instead.