It’s been a while
Eight months, to be precise. Undeterred by my blogging akrasia, I have decided to resurrect this blog, complete with a new expanded links section. Let your celebrations be immense.
Since I last said anything on The Alphabet of Being, I’ve been up to quite a lot. Some of this consisted in being ill, other bits of it involved political activity and trips to the south coast. But there was plenty of philosophical interest as well. A highlight was visiting the Foundations of Logical Consequence group at Arche. It was really good to spend some time with this exciting project, which is investigating what is perhaps the question in philosophy of logic – what is the nature of the consequence relation(s)? Whilst I was there, we had an excellent selection of seminar speakers (ignoring the fellow on the 26th April), and worked our way through Greg Restall’s book on substructural logics.
Projects seem to abound in British logic at the moment, and the exciting news is that a new one is starting at Birkbeck this term – details of Øystein Linnebo’s project Plurals, Predicates, and Paradox : Towards a Type-Free Account are here. Given my PhD topic, I’m thrilled that this is happening at Birkbeck. It was good to be involved in an initial workshop earlier this year.
I am going to attempt to return to my initial plan to use this blog for a combination of reflection, news, and posting interesting links. This is the final year of my AHRC doctoral award, and I am aiming to get the thesis near completion by the end of the academic year. As a consequence, my posts may be infrequent. I am also going to experiment in consolidating my web-presence. My thoughts, such as they are, on politics and religion will be kept philosophical in character, and posted here.
Now let’s see how long that resolution lasts.
