Thursday, June 24, 2010

Fates of Au Pairs: Party Duelers Instantiating Unicycles

This summer I will be reading Truth and Truthmakers with a friend, and in preparation I'm giving a quick read to A World of States of Affairs. Armstrong is developing a sustained account of states of affairs, and a defense of the thesis that they are the building blocks of what is.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

"The Critique of Pure Seasoning"

I owe the name of this blog to Lucas Keefer. It is, of course, derived from the name of Kant's greatest work.

In coming to decide what to call the blog, I relied upon the cleverness of my friends. I expressed that I wanted a name that captured the dual subject matter: philosophy on the one hand, and food and cooking (and other activities in the domestic sphere) on the other. I wanted the philosophy reference to avoid being too narrow and inaccessible (I wanted well-read non-philosophers to have a very good chance at seeing the title for its philosophical content) and I wanted the food reference to not single out any particular sort of cuisine or preparation. I wanted the title to be broad.

I decided to dedicate the first post to some of the names that didn't make the final cut.