This week I'll be presenting a paper that I have been thinking about for a very long time (with a title that might be my favourite so far): philos.humanities.mcmaster.ca/events/philo...

The paperback edition of Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 is now out: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

From John Rawls' A Theory of Justice.

I could spend the entire day looking at this.

Autumn in Pennsylvania

Final version of a new paper on Davidson's triangulation argument and the requirement of an antecedent concern for what is true in any thinking and speaking creature. philpapers.org/rec/SULTCF

My reading spot.

I'll always remember Greg as a kind and generous colleague, committed to his students and to his work. I’ll share one memory here. In September 2023, Greg and I participated in a one-day workshop organized by a colleague. (1/x)

This is very sad news. An important figure in history of analytic philosophy and in logic and phil of mathematics.

Tomorrow it will be 70 years since George Enescu's death. Here is a beautiful performance of the first Romanian Rhapsody, conducted by the very talented Cristian Măcelaru. youtu.be/cuU5sbXYAJ0?...

"Dans sa décision, le juge a également souligné des incohérences dans la logique du gouvernement, suggérant que, si le ministre estime que les étudiants de l’extérieur de la province ne restent pas au Québec ... il est insensé de les obliger à maîtriser le français." www.ledevoir.com/societe/just...

Cloudy mornings in Montreal.

"A thinker is very much like a draughtsman whose aim is to represent all the interrelations between things." (Wittgenstein)

Vargas Llosa on smoking: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....

Teaching Locke on language today. "Because words are many of them learned before the ideas are known for which they stand; therefore some, not only children, but men, speak several words no otherwise than parrots do, only because they have learned them, and have been accustomed to those sounds."

A stunningly beautiful piece by Paul Cézanne: La Neige fondue à l'Estaque--Les toits rouges.

A review of Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40, edited by Claudine Verheggen: brill.com/view/journal.... The review is also available here: philarchive.org/archive/TANCVE

Today is devoted to Berkeley, who wrote: “I do not pin my faith on the sleeve of any great man. I act not out of prejudice and prepossession. I do not adhere to any opinion because it is old one, a received one, a fashionable one, or one that I have spent much time in study and cultivation of.”

I find this characterization to be true of all the philosophical questions I engaged with.

Last photo taken in 2024. Happy new year!

Montreal fog.

“Humanities fields are underfunded in proportion both to other fields and in proportion to their contribution to the revenues that make up institutional funds.”

G. E. Moore on B. Russell: "I do not know that Russell has ever owed to me anything except mistakes; whereas I have owed to his published works ideas which were certainly not mistakes and which I think very important."

Checkmated on Boxing Day.

Somewhere in Ontario.

Somewhere in Ontario.

Somewhere in Ontario.

Somewhere in Ontario

Somewhere in Ontario.

Found in a bookshop last night: a Ionesco volume signed by Ionesco.

Un dimanche dans le quartier.

Waiting for Bach & Shostakovich #BachFestival

Le Festival Bach est l’un de mes festivals préférés. Ce soir: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.

Mary Oliver

Spending a bit of time this morning with one of my favourite Romanian writers, Mihail Sebastian.

November in Montreal: too bright, too warm.

Time to inaugurate this account in a proper way: here is my neighbour, Milou, next to an entity of the same colour but different form.