doesn't say anything about leaving your office door open

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/nyregion/here-comes-your-starbucks-latte-there-goes-your-laptop.html?hp

excerpt:

Starbucks shops are prime hunting ground for thieves who prey on customers distracted by laptops or iPads or, well, standing in line, to extract their valuables.

non-workshop reminder

there is no workshop tomorrow (thu. 28 apr.)

the workshop that was going to take place tomorrow has been moved to tue. 10 may.

so tomorrow there is only not-workshop.

Workshop reminder

"Writing the Damn Prospectus"

Tue 26 April
11:45a-1:00p
LT 1210

another book sale

http://www.psupress.org/springsale.html

for the philosohomies

SPEL GSO events:

infamous(ly awesome) end-of-the-year party

FRIDAY FRIDAY FRIDAY, May 7th! Save the date!

You deserve a break. Treat yourself right.
Keg beer and merriment will be provided.

Also this year is a THEME PARTY! (woohoooooo) Specifically, it is a CONCEPT PARTY! 

Come dressed up as your favorite concept, and please don't everyone go for Hedonism. ;)

Family, friends, significant others welcome!

Location: Regan (& Aaron) White House. 
It'll be a blasty blast.




End-of-the-year dinner at Moghul! Friday, May 13th, 7pm.

Please RSVP to (rrule1@binghamton.edu) by May 1st, and include the number of non-university affiliated guests who will be in attendance.

We hope to be able to cover all parties (students and significant others), but our ability to do so will be determined by the number of attendees. So it is very important that you RSVP!

Food will be covered, but please bring money for tips and drinks.

Looking forward to seeing all of your lovely faces together in a non-colloquium environment!


[what's wrong with the colloquium environment?]

so much for philosophy

from this:

Here is what baffles Mnookin most: How so many caring, well-educated, affluent parents came to buy leaky theories that vaccines cause autism. How 48 states allow parents to exempt their kids from vaccines for religious reasons, and how in 18 states all you need is a philosophical reason. How, in 2010, the journal Pediatrics reported that a staggering 25 percent of parents believed that vaccines can cause developmental disorders in healthy children. How, even after a 2002 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found no link between MMR and autism, the anti-vaccine camp grew stronger.


so I guess the ranking goes:
1) prudential reason
2) religious reason
3) philosophical reason
4) grunt prefaced by "'cuz"

Pluralist's Guide to Philosophy Programs

hadn't seen this until Melissa pointed it out to me.  it looks pretty new:

http://pluralistsguide.org/testsite/#awp::

here's the continental page:

http://pluralistsguide.org/testsite/program-recommendations/continental-philosophy/#awp::program-recommendations/continental-philosophy/

here's the feminist philosophy page:

http://pluralistsguide.org/testsite/program-recommendations/feminist-philosophy/#awp::program-recommendations/feminist-philosophy/

I think they have other pages, too.

from the Campus Master Plan Presentation

I skim it so you don't have to, not that you had to anyway.  I think this picture captures it:

Dissertation defense

Edgar Valdez
"Pre-Postulate A Priori Intuition: Revisiting Kant's Account of Space"


Wed Apr 13th


LT 1310 (note the floor)
12:45-2:45

colloquium reminder

                                                                             (not actually talking about this)

Distinguished Speaker

Elizabeth Anderson
University of Michigan

"The Fundamental Disagreement between Luck Egalitarians and Relational Egalitarians"

Thu 14 Apr
11:45-1:00
UUW 324

new agenda item for Tue open SPEL meeting

1. A brief speech in praise of the world's greatest SPEL memo.


the next SPEL meeting:

Tue 12 April
11:45-1:00
LT 1210

yay Shay!

tenure-track!

at the home of the other Spelblog


here's the holy hand grenade of Antioch again, even though it's not appropriate in this case

Nietzsche virtual issue

Nietzsche virtual issue of EJP here:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-0378/homepage/nietzsche_virtual_issue.htm

I'm not sure how long it's free.  But you have access to EJP through the campus network, anyway.

recurrent book sale

beware of spear phishing

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/business/05hack.html?src=me&ref=homepage

don't let what happened to Danesh happen to you.

registration

that's open now.

don't forget to check with your advisor.

and register for the colloquium.

Dissertation defense

Lew Trelawny-Cassity

Plato's Legislative Demiurgy: A Study of the Character of the Laws


this Wed! (the 6th)
12:30pm
LT 1210


open to the public

congratulations

to J Marsh, who is now ABD

SPEL meeting

it's an 'open' one

Tue 12 April, usual time, usual place