Inaugural Post

Hooray, we have a blog!

That is, we will have a blog, as soon as y'all start posting! I've collected some Exemplary Philosophy Blog Posts to inspire you. Here are some kinds of things you can write (and read) here:

Substantive philosophy stuff:

• "I'm reading this great article": e.g. Is Morality More Like Math or Art? @ Thoughts Arguments and Rants; Lewis Carroll's critique of Disjunctivism @ There is Some Truth in That
• "I went to this great lecture": e.g. Canon and Fanon @ Go Grue (woot, Ian Flora '05!)

Institutionalized-philosophy stuff:

• Philosophy and life: e.g. Ethicists Steal More Books? @ The Splintered Mind
• Prejudice & exclusion in philosophy: e.g. You're Like School in the Summertime — No Class @ Feminist Philosophers. (Also, see their other minorities-in-philosophy posts.)
• Professional academia stuff: e.g. APA Anti-Discrimination Policy Violators @ Leiter Reports

Posts that Solicit Comments:

• Opinion poll: e.g. Best Philosophical Writers @ Unideal Observers
• Soliciting Intuitions: e.g. Intutions as Evidence? @ There Is Some Truth in That; Intuitions about Property @ Unideal Observers
• Soliciting recommendations: e.g. African Phil of Religion @ Prosblogion, or Summer Reading @ Atoms Arranged Meaningwise
• Help with a text: e.g. Problem with Zarathustra @ Florida Student Philosophy Blog
• X-and-philosophy: e.g. Indiana Jones @ Talking Philosophy
• Riddles: e.g. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever @ UCSB

Anything else we'd want to read:

• Real Life News: e.g. Geneva & Paris @ Phlox; Congratulations @ Unideal Observers
• Videos: e.g. Quine @ Knowledge and Experience; Albert v. Carroll on Phil of Time @ Leiter Reports
• Stories: e.g. Greco Experiences the Principle of Charity at Work @ Certain Doubts; Daughter's Theory of Moral Desert @ Garden of Forking Paths
• Jokes: e.g., this one @ Atoms Arranged Meaningwise:

An analytic philosopher and a continental philosopher walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “wadda ya havin?” The continental philosopher replies, “I will require an authentic, discursively enjoined, post-structuralist, disimmediated thing-in-itself.”

The bartender shakes his head and says, “I don’t get what you want.” The continental philosopher turns his nose up in the air and storms out of the bar. The bartender looks apologetically to the analytic philosopher and says, “I really couldn’t understand him.”

“Oh, I know!” replies the analytic philosopher. “As for me, I’ll have the same, without the adjectives.”

(This pep talk was brought to you by Swacrates, Our Founder, and by the "z" in Nietzsche, not pictured here.)