New members elected to the class for biosciences and the class for humanities - Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien On 11 February, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences elected five new members to the class for biosciences and the class for humanities and outstanding services to science. Among them are three forei...

Congratulations: Tim has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. www.kva.se/en/news/new-...

Rethinking Metaphysics Amie Thomasson is a leader of a programme for deflating the pretensions of metaphysics and finding something better for philosophers to do. She locates ...

Perhaps it’s time to revive this neglected account. Tim reviewed Amie Thomasson’s book: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/reth...

Today’s Yale lecture by Tim- detailed handout:

Students Protest, a Philosopher is Knifed, and Faculty are Unpaid in Serbia - Daily Nous Natalija Jovanović, dean of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Niš in Serbia, was attending a student protest when a woman who opposed the protest reportedly threatened to throw acid on her a...

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Someone said to Tim after a lecture: “I currently have your Vagueness book as bedtime reading.” Tim replied: “I hope it gives you many hours of sleep” 😴 🤣

A bit unnerving to read this good detective story, for Tim and his wife: They know the Oxford based author, and it’s happening on their street in Oxford, plus there are lots of similarities between the characters in the book and two of them…

Armchair philosophy (in Tongue, Sutherland, Scotland, July 2023).

Tim has one chapter here:

There will be some new projects for Tim with Oxford University Press New York, easy to deal with branch. Some essays on the philosophy of logic.

Balkans meeting upper middle class England: Wife, (she and Tim in a concert audience): Someone put tons of aftershave, so annoying! Tim: No need to be so loud, it’s rude. Wife: It is rude to over-perfumise in a crowd. Tim: No need to be rude about rudeness!

Anthony Tuckney, 17th century theologian and Master of St John's College Cambridge, defended his practice of giving fellowships for "learning", rather than "godliness": "With their godliness they may deceive me, with their learning they cannot."

Philosophers…food (and drink) for thought…

Tim’s tonight’s talk to Oxford Socratic Society.

Tim: “I don’t like when people try to interpret what I wanted to say in my writing. I bloody said what I wanted to say!”

Thousands Of Serbians Demand Justice In General Strike The general strike takes place all across Serbia. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Belgrade on January 24, demanding justice for the victims and accountability for the collapse of a r...

Thousands Demand Justice As General Strike Grips Serbia www.rferl.org/a/serbia-bel...

No more teenagers amongst Tim’s children. Happy 20th Arno Williamson!

Tim’s new book now available online, next week in print. Good as Usual: Anti-Exceptionalist Essays on Values, Norms, and Action academic.oup.com/book/59302

Tim:”Recently I marked a student’s essay and now it disappeared.Looked everywhere.It must’ve been thrown into recycling bin!I’ll go out to have a look.”Wife:”I’ll do it,it’s windy and rainy,couldn’t bear the sight.”She digs for 10min no success.Tim:”Wait,I actually marked it online, no printouts…”👿

Upcoming yearly course in Lugano:

In Lugano, Dec. 10th:

Dinner with friends in Dublin, many thanks to Maria Baghramian for organising it.

Tim is off to Dublin for a PHD thesis examination at UCD (University College Dublin). He’s always happy to return to Dublin where he lived 1980-1988 (His first job, at Trinity College Dublin).

“Tim, what you are saying is such a gossip!”
“Gossip is a way of caring about other people!”

Current lecture in Ateneu, Barcelona.