… are on Facebook. Be there or be mereologically variable (inclusive ‘or’). See also: this page, with all the Original Monads tunes and the new tracks from the 21st CMs! UPDATE: New song out now! The G. E. Moore Shift

My colleague Stephen Stich is collecting data on philosophers’ views about normative judgments. This is part of work he’s doing jointly with Joe Henrich and Taylor Davis at UBC. It involves answering questions in a 20-item questionnaire. The research...

Roger White has a very interesting paper on origins of life research in Nous from a couple years ago, which I only just got around to reading.  I think he makes some very good points about the general reasons why apparent coincidences often shouldn’t...

There have been a lot of discussions why the gender ratios in academic philosophy remain so abysmal these days. Prominent recent posts include: Jenny Saul at Feminist Philosophers (one, two) Louise Anthony at Feminist Philosophers (here) Dana at...

The New York Times is running an article about one quirky explanation for why we haven’t found a Higgs boson yet. A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with...