I just got home from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where I gave my talk arguing for the following slogan:
pessimistic induction + common accounts of reference = semantic anti-realism.
For the blogpost version, with a decent comment thread, see here.
Salt Lake is physically beautiful, and socially it seems to be a strange combination of hippies and Mormons. The Utah department was really great -- plus, Jim Tabery was a model host. The only thing I want to post, though, was Ron Mallon's description of my work on Carnap et al.: he characterized me as a 'boutique historian.' I don't know whether the expression is original to him, but I definitely plan to steal it to describe myself in the future.
What does "boutique historian" mean?
ReplyDeleteI imagine you haven't developed an interest in how exactly Dolce came to know Gabbana.
Aren't we all boutiquy? Historians or otherwise?
Re: "Aren't we all boutiquy?"
ReplyDeleteCertainly philosophy has become very specialized recently, and history of philosophy seems to be no exception. Nonetheless, I do think there is a difference between publishing on some unpublished notes of Carnap, on the one hand, and, on the other, working on the First Critique, the Meditations, or the Republic. But I could be wrong.
Will I see you at the PSA?
Oops, forgot about this post. Yes, I hope to be at PSA. Its something of a reunion, afterall...
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