Unwelcome Opacity

locked book A great badness has entered the world; or rather, a great goodness has left it. (Well, Augustine would say those come to the same thing.) I notice that Amazon.com seems to have entirely eliminated its “Look Inside” and “Search Inside” options.

When did this happen? Why did this happen? Anybody know?


I Expected to Post This, Just Before I Did

I expect I'll have the salad My very first publication, a 1992 book review of David Velleman’s Practical Reflection, is now online. It’s a bit more accessible to the non-philosopher than my Aristotle-on-relations review, but, well, not much.

I’m not sure how much of the review I still agree with; my more recent rejection of the impositionist/reflectionist dichotomy might raise trouble for some of the distinctions I use in the review. Or it might not; I haven’t really thought about it. (And I have no time to think about it right now!)


What’s in the Goddamn Bird Book?

archenemies Gretchen and Michael After Sara Tancredi’s head showed up in a box, I thought for a while that Prison Break had jumped the ichthyosaur. But the plot twists and character dynamics of the last few episodes have lured me in again.

Alas, yesterday’s episode may be the last. Certainly it was the last for a while – a premature “season finale,” because season 3 was truncated as a result of the Hollywood labour dispute (not, incidentally, as a “result of the strike” – it takes two to tango). But it remains to be seen whether the show will be picked up to complete its arc.

I need closure!


CALL FOR PAPERS: Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and War

Ayn Rand For its 10th anniversary the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies is planning a special issue on the topic of “Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and War.”

Possible topics include “Rand’s view of war; defenses or critiques of Rand-influenced views of ‘just war,’ the current war or past wars, terrorism, ‘collateral damage,’ torture, the relationship between domestic and foreign policy, etc.”

Deadline for proposals: 1 April 2008
Deadline for papers: 1 September 2008

See the call for papers for more details, including style guidelines and information on how to submit proposals.


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