Pensacola Gulf Front Hotel
The schedule for next month’s Alabama Philosophical Society in Pensacola (which looks to be our biggest yet) is now online. Abstracts will be added later.
Auburn University
(I had planned to present a paper on the extent to which the Problem of Good, i.e. of reconciling the existence of goodness with the universe’s having been created by an all-powerful malevolent being, is symmetrical with the traditional Problem of Evil, but then I discovered that more work had been done in this area than I’d realised, and that what I had to add wasn’t sufficiently original, so at the last minute I recycled my piece on Godwin instead.)
Also online is a pair of talks that Kelly Jolley and I gave back in 2002 at an Auburn Philosophical Society roundtable on the subject of The Idea of the University.
The abstracts have now been added.
I wonder if there is a word for “quickly turning from comfortably humorous to ghastly”. A friend was watching Fox News today and as I passed by I noticed O’Reilly joking with his guest about something. Then he proceeds to mock a person who shouted “Nazi!” at some cops as they arrested someone for drug possession. Sometimes it’s hard to realize just how horrible conservatives (and liberals) can be, and how radically attitudes have changed from its founding (George Washington ran one of the biggest liquor businesses according to Jeff Tucker). I mean, laughing at someone for daring to question the kidnapping of a person for little more than smoking? What’s next, laughing at somebody for daring to question “The Stamp Act”?