Tuesday, May 30, 2006

celebrations

Hey Chris,

Aside from football, you also missed some fabulous birthday celebrations this weekend, including a butterscotch layer cake made by conor that we had at dinner sunday night! It can't ever replace your tiramisu, of course, but it was fabulous - even our resident baking mistress (ie Lottie) agreed! Wish you could have been there!

xo
Lisa

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Edinburgh News Bulletin, May 23th

Brothers and Sisters, the day has come! we, existentialists pre-decostructivists, will on this day take on those analytic losers from that town just north of here which barely made it few weeks ago to become a city. other people might call it
Sartre(s) of Midlothian vs Rapid Vienna Circle, 5pm Meadowbank
the other day i watched jacquet (that's the coach of france when they won the world cup) telling his troops that the secret was solidaritè

so, brothers and sisters, I salute your courage, strenght and indefatigability, in solidarity, victory shall be ours!

Friday, May 12, 2006

against pop-leftism

on the pop-left and the Euston Manifesto:

http://nullo.ilcannocchiale.it/?id_blogdoc=996037

Friday, May 05, 2006

Philosophy and football

Just to keep you up to date, Chris, over here in Scotland the excitement is growing with regard to the most important football game of the year. Forget the World Cup final, the most exciting place to be will be Stirling Universtity next Tuesday where the mighty Rapid Vienna Circle are taking on the newly-formed but promising Edinburgh side Sartre of Mid-Lothian.

As I've said to everyone here I'm not playing, since I feel my loyalties are too divided. (I have been asked to play for both teams, after all). This may mean that I'll end up as ref, which could be interesting since I don't know anything about the rules of football.

The air of excitement and anticipation is almost tangible as both teams do thier best to prepare for the challenging game ahead. It should be a very interesting match...

Monday, May 01, 2006

Online Philosophy Conference

I say, Christoph and the rest of my old chums...

Just thought you might like to be informed that the first annual online philosphy conference is now underway. I don't know much about it but it looks like there are some interesting papers from a variety of well known philosphers (including Stirling's own Prof. Duff). Anyway, I thought it looked like a good idea (although, as we all know, the best part of going to conferences is the drinking) and might be a good oportunity to engage with people you might not have the opportunity to meet in real life.

Anyway, have a look at the website for more details: http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/online_philosophy_confere/