SPEL colloquium

There is a SPEL colloquium this Thursday, Dec 6, from 11:45-1:00 in UUW 324.

Speaker: Carlos Cortissoz

IASH

December 5, 2012

Robert Guay, Associate Professor, Philosophy

IASH Fellows’ Speaker Series:  “Nietzsche on Truth and Politics”

Nietzsche's account of truth is usually taken as an offering a radical form of skepticism or relativism. Robert Guay will argue that Nietzsche's main interest in truth was in identifying a conflict between a transcendent sense of truth and a sense of truth required to govern linguistic and epistemic practices; Nietzsche's concern was that a common conflation of these senses leads to harmful effects on a variety of social practices.

12:00pm, IASH Conference Room (LN 1106)

HuffPo on the Chronicle beat, sort of

see how Philosophy did/does/whatever

link: here

more advice from the Chronicle

it's more like a memoir, I suppose, but it contains advice indirectly

link: here

it's about time

for some reason no one's ever picked up on my idea for a Critique of Pure Reason movie musical, but at least someone has finally had the sense to adapt TJ for the stage:

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h/t: Blake

election day

one of the things I remember from introductory linguistics is that native speakers have a wide range of linguistic competencies that haven't been specifically inculcated. for example, studies show that native speakers know the proper location in a phrase -- or even within a word -- to insert "fucking" to be vulgarly appropriate.

and yet can't quite decide if it's "election fucking day" or "fucking election day," although I lean toward the latter. in fact, I almost titled this post "voting day," which is probably eurosocialist or something.

oh well, I'm an idiot, but I still get to vote at Binghamton Fucking Town Hall.


http://yourfuckingpollingplace.com/

genocide faux pas

oops!

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