Dear Readers:
I am going to be leaving the blogosphere for the next couple of months, though this "group blog" will keep operating--not only with Bill Edmundson, Benj Hellie, Jason Stanley, and Jessica Wilson (as their schedules permit)--but also some wonderful new guests who have agreed to participate, starting with Thomas Nadelhoffer (who will be posting through the summer), and continuing with the political philosopher Jonathan Wolff from University College London in July and August. I may return, on occasion, to post important news items for the philosophical community that come up during the summer (or to post, e.g., a link to a new Philosophers' Carnival), but otherwise there will be no regular political, cultural, or philosophical commentary from me until August. (Posting will be the same at the law school blog as well, i.e., news items, that's about it.)
My "excuses" are pretty simple. By the end of the summer, I need to (1) put together my collection of essays for Oxford University Press on Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy, which needs both an introductory essay and, more importantly, a concluding essay replying to critics; (2) finish editing (with Michael Rosen) The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy, which includes finishing my own essay for the volume, as well as our introduction; (3) finish the essay on "Legal Realisms" for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, as well as revise and update my 2002 essay for them on "Naturalism in Legal Philosophy"; (4) finish some shorter projects--one for Walter Sinnott-Armstrong's three-volume collection for MIT Press on moral psychology, another for an OUP volume on the political theory of international relations; and (5) in an ideal world, work on revisions to some essays (on Nietzsche, on naturalized jurisprudence, on evolutionary biology and law) I've been working on for ages. (For those who have inquired, I can also report that the Nietzsche and Morality collection--with contributions by S. Blackburn, M. Clark & D. Dudrick, T. Hurka, N. Hussain, C. Janaway, J. Knobe & B. Leiter, P. Poellner, B. Reginster, M. Risse, N. Sinhababu, and R.J. Wallace--was sent to OUP last week, so should be out next Spring!)
All this, I'm sure, is more than most of you want to know, but I do not shirk my blogging "duties" lightly (!), and I am grateful, as always, for your interest. I am sure my co-bloggers and our new guests will have much good fare, and I hope to be back in August with suitably engaging material.
I leave you, then, with some fun summer blog reading:
The latest addition to my rather limited blogroll.
Another good young philosopher whose blog deserves your patronage.
And another (to whom we owe the Philosophers' Carnival).
And another (a "local").
Ruchira Paul and Juan Cole, of course, for sensible political and cultural commentary.
For fun, Molly Ivins on the Republicans who know what really matters.
And, for another laugh, try one of the the proliferating parody sites, which skewer the venal, the banal, and the mentally unstable. (ADDENDUM: A reader fairly points out that Dadahead deserves credit for correctly pegging the last one starting well over a year ago here and here and here.)
Happy summer to all Northern Hemisphere readers! And warm thanks to all, as always, for reading.
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