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Job: lectureship in philosophy at Exeter

May 24, 2011 //
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My college, Exeter, has just advertised this post in philosophy:

The College proposes, if there is a suitable candidate, to appoint a Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy for one year from 1 October 2011 until 30 September 2012.  (http://www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/college/jobs-info/2011-05-philosophy.html)

Further details about applications and so on are available from the website linked above.

I should say something about what we are looking for. The Further Particulars specify our teaching desires:

The College expects applicants to be able to teach some or all of the following [in tutorials, not lectures]:

  • For Prelims/Mods: Moral Philosophy [i.e., Mill Utilitarianism]
  • For Finals: Ethics, Plato: Republic, Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Philosophy of Religion.

We’d be particularly pleased to appoint an ancient philosopher with interests in contemporary moral philosophy, or a moral philosopher who feels able to cover the ancient philosophy papers in translation (there is no need to know Greek).

I’d appreciate it if readers could draw this post to the attention of any suitable candidates. Any interested candidates should also feel free to get in touch with me directly.

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Markdown

May 23, 2011 //
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I’ve recently been turned on to the joys of Markdown (as well as its extension MultiMarkdown). The basic idea is simple: a markup language that uses a very natural human readable syntax, so that the original source file is easily written and read, as well as easily converted into less human readable formats (e.g., HTML and LaTeX).

I’ve long been a LaTeX user, and for large documents will continue to use it. But for short documents, those written to be published on the web, even blog posts like this one, I can now see MultiMarkdown taking over as my main writing environment. This is helped by the great MultiMarkdown integration into my favourite text editor, TextMate, with live preview and easy gui access to the command line.

It’s particularly pleasing as a philosopher to finally make this move to Markdown, given the substantial role that John MacFarlane played in developing MultiMarkdown (and I note the acknowledgement of Mark Eli Kalderon too.)

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New website

April 25, 2011 //
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I’ve now migrated my old website to this WordPress site, at antonyeagle.org. The only functionality missing is on the research page; on the old site holding the mouse over the ‘abstract’ link would bring up a block quote of the abstract of the paper. But in many ways it is easier to host things on WordPress: I can integrate the blog with the rest of the website, updating is a tiny bit easier than using GoLive, and I can redesign the site very quickly if I get bored…

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New blog

March 16, 2011 //
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My last blog was pretty much a failure; I never could give it the time I promised it. This one will be better.

The aim is to post little bits and pieces of philosophy—maybe arguments from work in progress, or just comments on other stuff I’m thinking about. I feel I need to get in the habit of more regular writing, so hopefully this will give me an incentive. Also I’ll post stuff on music—gigs, records, thoughts—as well as on other personal-type topics.

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