Sorry about some of the delays in getting comments to appear. I think I had too many layers of security. I still have _two_ of the three layers. You have to register to post, and if you haven’t commented before (I’m not sure whether comments pre-WordPress move count) I have to approve the comment. Other than that, it should be a case of comment away! (Delays in me replying to comments are not because of technical errors, but because I’m slow in coming up with interesting things to say in reply.)

There have been a bunch of new philosophy blogs appear (or appear on my radar screen) recently. Here are some of them.

* “Lemmings”:http://lemmingsblog.blogspot.com/
* “Brain Brain”:http://brainbrain.blogspot.com/
* “de crapulas edormiendo”:http://decrapulasedormiendo.blogspot.com/
* “Philosophy from the Left Coast”:http://brianberkey.blogspot.com/
* “Reality Conditions”:http://realityconditions.blogspot.com/

UPDATE – And another: “Knowability”:http://knowability.blogspot.com/

Following up on the causation post the other day, I’ve been reading some very interesting stuff by “Phillip Wolff”:http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~pwolff/CLSLab.htm, especially stuff about experiments on when people will use causitives, and when they’ll merely use causal phrases. “This paper”:http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~pwolff/papers/DirectCausation.pdf has tons of references and some fun experiments.

Slate “reviews the Language Log blog book”:http://www.slate.com/id/2143324/?nav=ais. I was going to call it a blook, but that term seems to have a “dubious history”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blook.

“The Onion”:http://www.theonion.com/content/index/4228/5 has been reviewing its greatest hits of the first ten years online. If you don’t want to do any other work today, click over there.

I promise that this blog won’t descend into a place where we post nothing but YouTube videos. (Even if I don’t have many interesting actual thoughts to post.) But below the fold is the first descent into this madness. We have two pieces of evidence that people have way too much time on their hands.