This is just a post to say howdy. I included a cool picture of Robert Brandom in honor of his noted student Mark Lance (footnoted in Making it Explicit) being on board (and, obviously, with all right thinking people I'm in worshipful awe of the beard). More seriously, Lance and Kukla's Yo and Lo: The Pragmatic Typogrophy of the Space of Reasons is sitting on my bookshelf staring at me now and also at the top of my reading list. [intoxicating bit from blurb: "Looking at philosophical problems starting with the pragmatics of language, they develop a typology of pragmatic categories of speech within which declaratives have no uniquely privileged position. They demonstrate that non-declarative speech acts—including vocative hails (“Yo!”) and calls to shared attention (“Lo!”)—are as fundamental to the possibility and structure of meaningful language as are declaratives."]
More specifically about this blog- I love how the authors' page to right shows everybody's webpages and own blogs. It will be fun getting to know everybody.
One organizational question- Are there any good protocols for crosslisting here and at our own blogs? Does one put the post up on one blog and just link to it on the other?
Blog settings points- Protevi, (1) the overall look here is really nice, but can you make the button for comments more pronounced, not in gray and perhaps bigger? (2) I think the comments sections work a lot better if you use the typepad option where people can "reply" to specific comments. It's much easier to track a debate with fifty or so comments this way (cf. perverse egalitarianism).
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