I’m basically bedridden with some kind of seasonal, or at least mid-semester, illness. Hopefully it’s just a 24 hour bug. In the meantime, apologies to all those whose emails I’m not responding to, and here are a few interesting links.

* Eric Schwitzgebel and Fiery Cushman are running a “Moral Sense Test”:http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu/eric1/test/testP.html to, among other things, compare philosophers’ and non-philosohers’ responses to various moral questions, and they’d like as many people to take the test as possible.
* I think it’s a very bad idea to have “public safety announcements that look like parking tickets”:http://curbed.com/archives/2008/10/13/funny_tickets_in_the_burg.php.
* Oliver Sacks is doing the 2008 “Mason Welch Gross Memorial Lecture”:http://english.rutgers.edu/news_events/war/calendar/0809/sacks.html at Rutgers. It is scheduled for October 29. I assume coincidentally, he is also speaking at the “Autonomy Creativity Singularity”:http://asc.nhc.rtp.nc.us/ conference at UNC next month, along with such philosophical luminaries as Kwame Anthony Appiah and Jesse Prinz.
* If anyone wants to chip in more money, even just $10, to the Obama fundraiser here (and in the sidebar) it would be greatly appreciated!