The deadline for submissions to this year’s Formal Epistemology Workshop (which will be in Munich in early summer) is in a few days.
I’ve been using, and loving, John MacFarlane’s excellent program Pandoc. It is a document converter for converting between, more or less, any two commonly used open-source document formats. It is particularly helpful for me for converting between TeX and file formats that can be read by Microsoft Word, since so many journals seem addicted to Word. Writing this is a really incredible public service on John’s part. It’s not what people commonly mean by a public intellectual, but I’ve always thought a public intellectual should be someone who uses intellectual skills for the public good, and this is one of the best instances I’ve seen of this by a philosopher in a long time.