Andrew Cullison seeks feedback for his improvement on the Philosophy Journal Wiki.

Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, in an extremely interesting piece, discuss at length John Rawls' Senior (B.A.) thesis, and its relation to his later work. Rawls' religion, it seems, had a lot of influence on his later work, despite his altered views on faith after the war.

Sensible discussion about the economics of open access.

After a long testing period, TeXlive 2009 was released yesterday. This is a great LaTeX and XeLaTeX distribution for every OS.

If nothing else, this is just plain amusing. For philosophers using LaTeX, who need a symbol code, but are too lazy or impatient to look through symbols-letter or symbols-a4.pdf? Draw a symbol, get a code, here!

I know a lot of philosophers on here also are active on Twitter. Thought you'd like this.

A nice link from Leiter to a story about UCLA's financial situation---just one of the state-funded campuses severely affected by California's horrible budget crisis. The situation is, to say the least, grim.

Dealing with rejection.

Philip L. Quinn Fellowship in Philosophy to be established at the National Humanities Center

... It is especially gratifying that a distinguished and much-loved member of the academic world admired the National Humanities Center and that his co-executors have chosen to memorialize him here. It speaks to the place that the Center holds in the hearts and minds of American scholars, and it is fitting that Philip Quinn's intellectual and ethical commitments in the profession be transmitted thus to future generations of philosophers.

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