Well, despite major PowerPoint problems (I am so going to put Keynote on this Mac!) I survived my talk. It was, indeed, a very long suicide note, as I feared, but I gather the execution of said note is deferred for the time being.
Other than that I'm having a wonderful time - too many interesting (and some just plain strange) papers at the AAP this year, and too many beers, but it's a shitty job someone has to do.
Jason Grossman suggested the best thing I've heard so far - swap the back cover blurbs on our books as we publish them, so that they are not only misleading (as all backcover blurbs are by nature), but they force people to read them to find out where Wilkins discusses mereology in his book on species concepts... ["It's got to be here somewhere. It says so on the cover!"]
I leave for Exeter next week, but I'll blog before then. I know you've all been wanting a little bit more of Wilkins. So many people do. *SIGH*
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Was that my idea? I thought it was Catie's!
We all get joint blame, I mean, credit. I'm too hungover to remember in detail...
Yes, we want more Wilkins! And please do say hello to my colleague, Professor Edzard Enrst, when you are at Exeter. Safe travels, mate.
Forget Powerpoint. Switch over to PDF presentations using Beamer and PDFLatex.
Beamer is slow. Also it means I have to learn TeX, which I don't want to do. But I got Keynote, and it's good. Very good. It's an order of magnitude easier to author in than PPT and it reliably converts all my PPT files. And it saves PDF anyway...
So...do we get to see or read the suicide note sometime?
So...do we get to see or read the suicide note sometime?
Perhaps. I'm being Radical and denying that information has a causal role in explaining genes. But I think I better recast it as "what must a physicalist believe about genetic information?"
If you run into John Dupré while you are at Exeter, tell him I say hello.
I did see John - he responded to my paper. But unfortunately I got this too late to pass your regards on. Sorry.
Feh, I'll just have to hope he'll be in Vancouver in November and try to monopolize some of his time then. (Do you know yet whether you'll be at the PSA?)