Big Thoughts

here's a link to esquire's best and brightest of 2008.

A hopefully growing collection of philosophy dissertations.

and obama's austerity and the harm to higher ed it may have.

here's philosopher david sosa's 'papers' page on his personal site. i really like it, specifically the blurb about the paper's content.

stuff about today

some links to rad music blog posts:

Here's NewArt's post on Daito Manabe, japanese programmer, artist and musician.

A post on Adam Matta's site of what he's up to soon and a video of him with Sxip Shirley. (I don't know how to pronoune his name either) (GOOGLABLE).

Here are some links to order site for some philosophy journals that i would like to read:

Constellations ($38, 1 year, individual, online access
Philosophical Review ($33, 1 year, individual, online access)
Noûs ($125, 1 year, individual, 4 issues and two annual journals: 'Philosophical Issues' and 'Philosophical Perspectives,' online access)
Telos ($60, 1 year, individual, 4 issues, online access)

I looked all these up, thinking about gifts i'd like (as i'm thinking about gifts i general this time of year), and wondering just how steep the prices are. And Nous and Constellations are both published by Weily(-Blackwell) but have a nearly $100 price difference. Funny to think of the sort of online access you have for a year (all back issues?) if you subscribe to one of these journals...

And for kicks, another post at NewArt about horse racing, philosophers and surprisingly slow Jeeps.

(art: 'You Used To Be Alright, What Happened' by Kristine Moran via NewArt [sorry i'm biting so much!!])