Thomas Hodgson @twsh@scholar.social

My account is set so that people can follow me. And some people have recently. I also have a 'follow request'. Why would that happen?

This conference about David Lewis' work looks like it will be good:
https://philevents.org/event/show/75310

#philosophy

A recent book in my field has a novel structure. There are three authors. Each contributes a chapter to each of fours parts. Part 1 describes a sort of view that they all endorse. In part 2 each defends their particular view. In part 3, each one criticises the other two. In part 4, each one writes a short response to the criticisms.

I believe the plan was for four authors.

I think that it works well. I haven't seen anybody else attempt it.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/new-thinking-about-propositions-9780198776802?q=new%20thinking%20about%20propositions&lang=en&cc=gb

#philosophy

What's a good clipboard history program for Ubuntu?

I think the best option I have found is mathastext.sty (with the italic option). Everything works and nothing looks too odd.

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/mathastext

I have some simple formalism in a paper I'm going to present. When I make slides with the Metropolis Beamer theme the math mode text is in Computer Modern which looks very strange mixed in with Fira Sans. I haven't found a satisfactory solution to this.

#LaTeX

I have read bits of it, and encountered ideas from it, now I am finally planning to read Sperber & Wilson's 'Relevance' properly.

https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Relevance:+Communication+and+Cognition,+2nd+Edition-p-9780631198789

The back cover has an endorsement by Umberto Eco.

#reading
#philosophy
#linguistics

Is that now something they do for every rejected manuscript, or is there a process going on that I should wait for the end of before submitting the paper somewhere else?

I just had a paper rejected by a Springer journal. The email included this:

'Message from Springer Nature, publisher of Philosophical Studies:

Although your manuscript was not suitable for Philosophical Studies,

Springer Nature is keen to help you find a suitable journal to publish your manuscript from our portfolio of over 2,600 journals.

One of our Submission Editorial Advisors will be in touch shortly to help you find the most relevant journal for your manuscript.'

I've been enjoying the radiofreemidwich show:
https://www.mixcloud.com/radiofreemidwich/

I put the #python script I use to rename PDFs on GitLab.

https://gitlab.com/twsh/pdfrename

The next Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association is 10–12 July 2020 at Kent.

https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-joint-session/call-for-papers/

#cfp #philosophy