Category Archives: This and that

The exhibition ‘Jan Gossaert’s Renaissance’ is on at the National Gallery for another ten days. Warmly recommended. Especially to those, like us, who are really pretty ignorant of the Northern Renaissance. Quite a revelation. We learnt a lot, and some of … Continue reading →

Retirement looms/beckons (depending on whether it’s a day that I feel it is to be regretted or welcomed). So I’ve started really clearing out my office (as opposed to the occasional half-hearted efforts in the past). Most of a filing … Continue reading →

I’ve just heard that CUP will probably look kindly on a proposal for a second edition of my Gödel book, to come out two or three years hence. There have already been a couple of (quite heavily) corrected reprints, but … Continue reading →

Apart from sounding off occasionally about Higher Education Bollocks (there really is a lot of it about), I tend to steer off politics here. My half-baked and (these days) ill-informed prejudices would be of little interest. Still, I’ve always been … Continue reading →

We are staying with Ms Rum’n’Reason and Mr R&R on New Providence — more exactly, we’re staying in the north west corner of the island, well away from Nassau where the cruise ships dock. Here, as you can see, the … Continue reading →

Good news, I hear as I get online from the Bahamas. Huw Price is definitely coming (back) to Cambridge as the next Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy on Simon Blackburn’s retirement. Also the danger that my lectureship would lapse on … Continue reading →

Cambridge has its own funny little ways. One example: for decades, if you took Part III of the maths tripos — one of the tougher exams on planet Earth — you got no formal recognition at all, just the glory. … Continue reading →

 A surprisingly busy term over. Almost. So, inter alia, I can at last get back to writing my ordinals book and to blogging about Alan Weir’s book Truth Through Proof. Watch this space. Meanwhile, I’ve just finished (re)reading Jonathan Raban’s … Continue reading →

I’ve just noticed — looking through the archive of past posts to check that nothing has been badly messed about by the presentational update — that the first ever post here was on March 9th 2006. So I missed marking … Continue reading →

To be honest, I am as bad as the rest of you! I almost daily visit someone’s website or blog, read their words of wisdom, download papers, talks, or overhead slides, and learn a huge amount this way. Yet I … Continue reading →