Monday 23 February 2009

Hello empty cyberspace.

Welcome to yet another opinionated and self-indulgent vanity project. I am yet another one of those people who, bizarrely, thinks that other people might read what they have to say. This is a place for me to put down odd thoughts about philosophy before I have reached the stage where they are at all well-formed, convincingly argued or in any other way worthy of your attention.

I will probably also bore you with endless mundane tales and reminiscences about every detail of my painfully ordinary life. If you want to hear not only shit philosophical musings, but also reports of the minutiae of hair dye, drinking, and what my equally boring friends and relatives have got up to, you are probably going to be in luck.

More usefully, I will try to mention updates about conferences, journals, and any other philosophy news that fits within my vague range of interest or experience, especially anything happening in the UK.

6 comments:

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  2. Sorry, had to test comments because it wasn't working the other day.

    The brits make a distinction between ethics and politics? That's a new one to me. Maybe we just draw the lines in different places.

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  3. There aren't enough blogs that combine occasional swearing or sexual references with shit philosophical musings. I wish you luck!

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  4. Welcom to the Blogsphere! I look forward to your musings.

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  5. Thanks everyone. I am amazed that people haave bothered to look at this already!

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  6. From one ethics girl to another: Just wanted to respond to your comments about Brian Barry. I knew him well in the 1970s and '80s, as Brian was my then-husband's DPhil supervisor at Nuffield, and we kept in touch through the years. I was told that Brian was an excellent supervisor. He was always 'good value', in that quiet, mysterious way that so many introverted academics have -- he just kept his thoughts to himself and didn't say anything unless he had determined that it was sufficiently worthwhile, but I have fond memories of a big, bear-like man with a certain social awkwardness, but a big smile and a hearty laugh. He was certainly more comfortable with familiar company, and I feel honoured to have known him.

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