Woman: I wonder what's going on here. There's a convention of some kind.
Man: I checked earlier. It's a group of philosophers. The North American Philosopher Society or something.
Woman: Philosophers? Really? What do they all do? Dress up like Socrates and pretend to fight each other? I mean... is it like that Dungeons and Dragons stuff?
Man: I dunno. Maybe.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
San Diego
I might try to do a few blogs from the conference. But then again maybe not. Feel free to share your observations. Things look pretty bleak from where I am. I did, however, hear a funny exchange on an elevator:
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Brilliant! Hope to see more posts from the APA..
What looks bleak exactly? I just got here and things look pretty nice to me so far. I mean, I still don't have a job and probably won't get one, but the view from my hotel room is amazing.
On the elevator sound bite ... amazing. Houston, we have an image problem ... LOL
About that elevator sound bite: I am convinced that Spiros makes these things up. Seriously. He's full of shit.
You should have said, "No. We dress up like Socrates and ACTUALLY fight each other."
This could be a new marketing angle: The APA is the Society for Creative Anachronism...for the mind.
"north american philosophy society" would be abbreviated as NAPS.
I think this would be far more a propos given how the apa seems to be asleep at the switch.
I don't know that we have an image problem so much as a practice problem. The conferences the elevator riders imagine sound much more fun than our actual conferences. Perhaps we should petition the APA to consider adopting the Elevator Passenger Proposal.
of course the other conference at the hotel involves NASA and Aviation Security.There are a bunch of big brawny guys walking around in matching blue shirts. One session seemed to be called James Bond_007.
Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.
Looking for a room to attend a talk, I accidentally walked into a NASA conference and it took me a few minutes to realize that I was at the wrong conference. Same demographic: just lots of white dudes (but yeah, some of them are in uniforms).
So I've been reading the comments on the Synthese stuff at evolving thoughts. I was wondering if anyone knew of the last time a philosophy journal was boycotted and why.
Don't kid yourselves, the big gaming conventions are MUCH more popular than the APA venues. It would be a big step up in our popularity if we were as well liked as these groups. Google Origins or GenCon if you have any doubt.
- From a Gaming Philosopher
Does anyone want the Old Brian Leiter back? I miss him dearly.
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2010/09/yolanda-travis-mcdonalds-franchisor-of-the-year.html
Yes, he's the man with the balls to speak back to McDonalds! Can someone tell me: why can't Brian continue doing what he does best?
That's it, I'll be Nietzsche at the next conference.
From the mountain tops I'll show you all.
;)
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Hey Spiros,
On the first day of the conference you said things looked pretty bleak. Did that hold true to the end?
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