"Hey, Gödel---we're compiling a comprehensive list of fetishes. What turn's you on?" "Anything not on your list."

Details of DFW's work in philosophy. His use of Montague semantics to undermine an argument for fatalism. Author makes interesting connections with a tension in his literature.

David Chalmers and David Bourget are working on a taxonomy of philosophy in order to assist in tracking online papers in philosophy. Seems like a very worthwhile endeavor to significantly improve online philosophy resources. Check out the explanation and call for feedback here.

Mark Kalderon's BibTeX sharing idea inspired me to continue compiling BibTeX files for the major philosophy journals. This post has a list of all of the BibTeX files I've made so far.

It'd be interesting to see whether this holds true of philosophy profs. Also, averages are one thing, but another interesting stat would be, what's the M/F ratio of, say, the top 20% of researchers. And of the bottom 20%.

Photographer Steve Pyke's series of philosopher portraits (2001-2006).

Interesting discussion of academic blogging in the Times Higher Education

... and Calls for Papers. From Leiter: "The blog is here (courtesy of some Buffalo PhD students) and you can send them announcements for posting via this address. As readers know, I don't post these kinds of announcements, but I hope readers will take advantage of this new site and also spread the word (and link to it). I will add it to my 'blogroll" as well."

I just updated Sympoze. Two VERY COOL improvements. First = When you submit a story that has already been submitted by a user, you're automatically taken the story page so you can vote on it. Second = All of the journal page URLs that our software wouldn't recognize. It recognizes them now.

Article about experimental philosophy