Travel Diary 2 4 Oct 2009 So, as I missed Munich, and found myself in Frankfurt, which was shut, being a Saturday, I am now in Erlangen. I’ll say this for German trains, they are rather fast. I have met up with Thony Christie, blogger and sometime commentator on this blog (and a killer Mornington Crescent player), and we are to have dinner tonight after having had Kuche und Kaffee (old German tradition, I am told) in a delightful village the name of which I cannot now recall. I’m here for a few days and thence to the conference in Göttingen. I have managed to finish a paper on the train, too, so it’s been a useful holiday (academics don’t have holidays, they have thinking time away from their duties). More later, of course. No pics as I didn’t think to take my camera… Administrative
Administrative A piece of useful software for Mac-using teachers 15 Oct 2007 I gave a lecture yesterday on animal minds, and in the course of it tried to show some YouTube videos in Keynote by linking to the pages (tool using crows, by the way, and the excerpt from Life of Birds by Attenborough on Japanese crows using stop lights to get… Read More
Administrative Wilkins hides in fear 1 Dec 20111 Dec 2011 I haven’t been engaging much recently. There is an Official Story and a Privileged Narrative. The Official Story is that I have submitted, revised or refined several recent papers for publication, met with a coauthor in Canberra (eight hours due north) for a paper, a talk of which I am… Read More
Administrative Coming to Berkeley 9 Feb 2013 I’ll be in Berkeley (California, in case there’s another one somewhere) from around the 9th to the 15th of March, to give a talk to the Mellon-Sawyer series Speciesism and the Future of Humanity. Anyone who wants an unemployed philosopher to give a talk to their group also, or just… Read More