The Ethical Werewolf ‡ by Neil Sinhababu : May 2011

My other blogs

I've blogged in many different places. Here are some of them:

I'm very proud of War or Car, where I posted a new thing you could buy for the price of the Iraq War everyday, for 121 days. This was during the 2008 elections, and I was glad that the antiwar candidate won. The site got its name because you could buy every American household a Toyota Prius for the $3 trillion price of the war. Or you could buy the Irish their annual beer intake, in Guinness, for a millennium. Or you could buy all the world's pandas their own personal stealth bombers!

Probably my greatest era of internet awesomeness was guestblogging for Ezra Klein long before he achieved his current superstardom at Vox. My posts there are pretty scattered, so they'll be hard to find. My work for Ezra catapulted me into other opportunities like filling in for Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly. After that from 2008 to 2015, my friend Nick Beaudrot and I wrote a blog called Donkeylicious. As the name suggests, it was largely about Democratic politics.

During the 2012 elections, I created a little blog called VoteSeeing that tabulated election predictions and graded predictors on how well they did. The folks at Daily Kos Elections won the prediction contest, with Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight a close second. Shortly afterward, a group of philosophers at a blog called NewAPPS got me to put up a few posts for them.

This post at the Philosophers' Cocoon has more about my job at the National University of Singapore, where I'm a philosophy professor.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Australasian Talk Schedule

About a month from now, I'll be starting my travels around the world, presenting papers and having all kinds of fun with philosophers. Here's the itinerary for the Australasian phase. I'll fill it out further once I get in contact with various departments about which paper they'd like to hear:

June 27-28, Global Themes in Ethical Naturalism, Singapore - "Emotional Perception of Morality"

July 3-8, Australasian Association of Philosophy, Dunedin - "Ethical Reductionism"

July 12, Canterbury (Christchurch NZ) - "The Epistemic Argument For Hedonism"

July 14-15, Naturalisms in Ethics, Auckland - "Emotional Perception of Morality"

July 16-17, Australasian Philosophy of Religion Association, Auckland - "Fine-tuning & Psychophysical Laws"

July 20, University of Tasmania - "Zarathustra's Metaethics"

July 27, La Trobe (Melbourne) - "Zarathustra's Metaethics"

July 28, University of Melbourne - "The Epistemic Argument For Hedonism"

July 29, University of Queensland - "Zarathustra's Metaethics"

Then I'll be back to Singapore for a few days, and then off to America for the fall semester of 2011 to have more awesome months like this.

NUS has very kindly given me a semester of writing leave and a travel grant, and I'm eager to make the most of them. I'm scheduling the US part of my trip right now. If you'd like to have me come visit you, I'm ready to travel, so let me know!

Thursday, May 19, 2011

It wouldn't work for his "heat is the motion of molecules" example though

If Kripke wanted to refer either to the wooden lectern or to a lectern made of ice in its place, he could've used frigid designation.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Let's just call his subfield "R"

It would've been unfortunate if Derek Parfit had been denied tenure on grounds that his research was not on a significant topic, because personal identity is not what matters.

The Ethical Werewolf ‡ by Neil Sinhababu