Comments on: Philosophy Blogs

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Sat, 12 Jun 2004 02:54:44 +0000

Taking the point a bit further, my longest-standing and most productive academic collaboration is with Bob Chambers of Uni of MD - our locations are just about antipodal. There’s nothing better than waking up in the morning and discovering that a problem you’ve been struggling with has been fixed by the night shift while you slept.

By: Ophelia Benson

Ophelia Benson — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:23:14 +0000

I like the globe-dotting thing too. B&W is only two people, and also not a blog (it contains a blog, as opposed to being one), but we’re in admirably different time zones. At B&W right now it is both 11:22 in the morning and 7:22 in the evening. Is that cosmopolitan or what.

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:16:32 +0000

Maria, GMT is UTC nowadays, and France is of course UTC+2 in summer, when the appalling BST is inflicted on the UK. Sadly, these farcical timezone jiggery pokeries are now synchronised within the EU, so there’s little hope of joining plucky little Iceland on year round UTC.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:03:45 +0000

Q, it depends on which way you cut it. CT has no less than three Irish bloggers, but none of us actually lives in Ireland; Henry’s N. America, Kieran’s in Australia and I’m in France. We’ve a clatter of Americans (not all of whom live in the US), a sprinkling of Brits, and an Australian who lives there and has the passport to match. Aside from the mix of backgrounds and country perspectives, one real plus of CT is that having contributors in so many time zones so the site’s never quiet for too long. So if only I could get around to holding up my end, the essential GMT +1 demographic would be better represented…

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:03:13 +0000

…and Canada (when Henry is based in Toronto).

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:01:42 +0000

Taking account both residence and nationality, at least The US, the UK, Ireland, France, Hungary, Australia, Singapore…

By: q

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:45:05 +0000

What countries/states are represented by this blog?

By: eszter

eszter — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:34:18 +0000

Brian – I agree with you that it’s great to have people from all over. I also see the upside of a blog for people in physical proximity though. It seems that colleagues in a dept can travel so much and be so busy with various tasks locally that just because people are in the same dept doesn’t matter they’re necessarily always close by to have interesting conversations. Plus this way, we can listen in on their conversations.:) Kieran – I picture half of us asleep on such a picture due to jetlag. As for CT, I would like to think one additional upside is that we have a more diverse group of disciplines represented, but I realize some may see that as a downside.;-)

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:31:53 +0000

I’m trying to set up a world spanning early modernist group blog. So CT does have some disciples.

By: Brian Weatherson

Brian Weatherson — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:06:41 +0000

It was meant to be a comparative. Compared to the collected philosophy faculty at some of the university’s that now run philosophy blogs, we look pretty good candidates for Vanity Fair covers?! I mean, if they can run David Beckham on the cover, why not CT ;)

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:29:46 +0000

Man are we ever cosmopolitan. I bet if you got us all together in a room and took a photo of us variously sitting on chairs, lying on the ground, staring off into the distance, etc, Vanity Fair could run it as the cover of its “Cosmopolitan People of the Year” issue.