ANNOUNCING: The New and Improved GFP Reading Group of Excellence!

I’m stepping down from running the GFP reading group (I'll still be hanging out here otherwise, so don't get too excited). It has been a lot of fun but over the next few months my commitments are going to outstrip my time, so this is one of the things that had to go. Moreover, it seemed to me the right time for new blood to run the reading group. So, I’ve found someone who has graciously agreed to make things better than they have been.  Your new reading group coordinator is Neil Levy, the guy who puts the cosmopolitan back in compatibilism, the multi-hemispheric Man from Melbourne and homme d’Oxford.

Neil will be organizing things from here on out. So if you promised me you would be willing to do a commentary at some point, I hereby transfer that promise to Neil (can I do that? Someone should post this question over at PEA Soup). More generally, please say yes if he comes a knockin’. I’ve been told by a number of people that they’ve enjoyed the reading group discussions. A crucial part of the success, such as it is, of the reading group seems to be the willingness of folks to take the role of lead commentator. So, please help Neil out if you can. It doesn’t take much time but it is one of the things that may make the Garden a fruitful place to hang out.

I also want to take a moment to thank everyone who has participated in the reading group over the past year, and I especially want to thank our lead commentators, without whom not. So, my thanks and appreciation to the efforts of Al Mele, Tim O’Connor, John Doris, John Fischer, Randy Clarke, and Saul Smilansky, all of whom delivered terrific commentaries on a range of interesting papers. And, of course, thanks to all the authors who permitted us to have public discussions of their papers, including: John Doris, Joshua Knobe, and Robert Woolfolk, Al Mele, Shaun Nichols, Peter van Inwagen, Kadri Vihvelin.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Comments

[John Fischer]

Thanks very much to Manuel for your excellent work in getting this going, and thanks also to Neil for picking it up.

[Neil]

Ah, a Douglas Adams fan. I knew you were a good guy. Manuel, promises are fully transferable, at the whim of the promisee. That's why I've never said "I do". Thanks for all the hard work in getting one of best features of one of the best blogs in one of the very greatest of possible worlds (some of the nearby worlds stink). Hope I can maintain the standard.

[Joe Campbell]

Thanks Manuel -- and congratulations Neil!