Test post 8 Apr 2010 Nothing to see here. Move along. I’m testing some new features. Do not play Mornington Crescent in the comments. Administrative Philosophy Administrative
Philosophy My Absent Career 9: Quale before me 30 Dec 20221 Jan 2023 I should pause for a minute before launching into the episode that finally scuttled my academic ambitions (of earning money), I should explain my absolute lack of interest in qualia, souls, spirits, ethereal minds, and moral realities. When I lost my faith, it wasn’t just an intellectual decision. It never… Read More
Ethics and Moral Philosophy Catholic ethics, and the Australian Museum 20 Apr 2010 Read this piece about how the Catholic Church is sponsoring a “science ethics” prize through the Australian Museum. Read More
Philosophy May I self-identify? 2 Jul 2010 Eric, at the Shoulders of Giant Midgets has refused me the right to self-identify as an Agnostic, comparing me to a racist who wants not to self-identify as a racist. Nice. I suppose it’s the difference between the law and philosophy (Eric being a lawyer) that such rhetorical moves (which… Read More
Whitechapel? WHITECHAPEL?? From Marble Arch? In my day a move like that would have caused unrest. Since we’re clearly not at home to a well controlled elevator: Redbridge. Louis
Oh, very well since we are playing with the limited,and some would say criminal, Australian Pub rules: Totenham Hale
You fools! Don’t you see, Wilkins is trying to get you to play Mornington Crescent in order to divert you from his evil plan to take over the intertubes!
Of course! It’s like Captain Kirk causing a rogue computer to seize by getting it to compute the value of pi. A runaway Mornington Crescent would draw in ever more resources until anything inside the event horizon at Chesham would be sucked irresistibly down a Blackfriars hole.
Nah, if he was really doing that he’d insist on the Whitehead & Russell 1927 rules with the Epimenides variation.
The first rule about Mornington Crescent is that you don’t talk about…….Oh that’s something else, is it?