DuckRabbit

Victor Mair at Language Log : Before I went to my ancestral village of Pfaffenhofen, Austria in 1967, I had always assumed that "Mair...

Brian Leiter likes to pour scorn on the NY Times's philosophy blog The Stone (he really doesn't like Simon Critchley), but this pos...

I have just discovered that on February 16, 1962, one C. M. Mullen of G. & C. Merriam Company wrote a letter to my maternal grandfather,...

I clicked over today to an interview with Brian Leiter in a post on The Browser today, and in the "Related Articles" sidebar ther...

The voting round of the 3 Quarks Daily philosophy prize for 2011 is now open. I've got a post there, but don't just go there and v...

I don't usually post things like this, but I want to get back into the habit of posting, and you must admit I have been pretty restraine...

When I was about 10 years old, I had a philosophical discussion – or disagreement anyway, as we did not get very much farther than simply st...

I recently had occasion to dine at an establishment with which most people are at least familiar, as it is a fairly large chain. I speak of...

Abbas just sent me this picture: The title of his email was "Duckrabbit!", but when I looked at it, all I saw was a duck. I mean, ...

Okay, I said I was going to start 'er up again, but not surprisingly that is easier written than done. So let's start out small. I...

My goodness, I haven't been around since July?! Okay, right. Let me do a little dusting, and then let's see if we can't start ...

I write like David Foster Wallace I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software . Analyze your writing! Not the best model for philosophi...

... let me just say that I have decided to post some of my ambient mixes on a new streaming audio site, Mixcloud ( link ). I had held back ...

Michael Bérubé in a pensive moment.

I promised in the comments to the other post to say something about Davidson's argument in "Nice Derangement," which is of cou...

The previous post was a bit of a bear, wasn't it. (By the way, if you liked it, you may vote for it here - once they work out the bugs...

The other day at Language Log there was a post directing us to a philosophically-themed Dinosaur Comic, where T-Rex jubilantly schools phil...

As Abbas points out in the comments to the previous post, 3 Quarks Daily is now accepting nominations for a prize to be awarded to the best ...

I just ran into this quote from L. Graham and J-M Kantor, Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity :...

No doubt this one will sweep the geek blogosphere. Too bad there aren't more avatars though. Get Your Cyborg Name HT: Wilkins