Conferences
In the next 10 days I'll be attending two philosophy conferences. The first, starting tomorrow and ending on Sunday, is the FOL75 logic conference here in Berlin. My plan for this is to sit quitely and nod or frown from time to time so that it doesn't show too much that I don't understand a word of what the speakers say. I'll also look at how some other people behave of whom I know that they also won't understand much. I guess for me this conference will be more like a field study in academic sociology.
The other conference, Monday through Friday next week, is the GAP5 conference at Bielefeld. I haven't really made up my mind on what I'll be doing there, but I hope to do some philosophy. If all goes wrong, I can still spend some time at the excellent library of Bielefeld university, catching up on the literature I'm missing in Berlin.