New APPS

Justin Weinberg has a nice post and discussion at the dailynous of the old story that people on airplanes ask us for our sayings (it's variously attributed, twenty-five or so years ago Charles Hartshorne told me it happened to him). It was kind of a cool synchronicity that on the same day I read Weinberg's post, I discovered this? There's not that much wisdom among them, but some are pretty funny. Examples:

“Logicians love to confuse people, just for the sake of getting clear on logic.”

— Logic professor

“Let me tell you about how different philosophy classes were in the ’60’s. I had a Norwegian philosophy professor at Berkeley who, one day, had our class take a walk through San Francisco and climb up a rope onto a cliff. Then we sat at his feet while he read from ‘Being and Time’.”

— Philosophy of Mind professor

“I always laughed at the honor pledge because it seems like that would be the first thing you would lie about.”

— Ethics professor

“This is at least how it works for human beings. I don’t know how it works for gods—I’ve never been one and I don’t know any.”

— Philosophy of Mind professor

Good stuff! Joe Bob says check it out.