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This is the guy who got dropped on our doorstep, in the bitter, winter cold, as seen in photo immediately below ( see: www.flickr.com/photos/walford/6740307179/in/photostream/ ). We took him in, and gave him cookies. He struck us as being a little philosopher, with his intent gaze. But then, who would not be, having been left in a box on our front door step!
The third conference session was a paper by Matthew van Cleave (from the University of Cincinnati), presenting "A Critique of Mandler's Argument for Prelinguistic Concepts".
Skink, Faifai beach jungle. Canon, 100mm macro. This little skink, looking back at the world and ready to jump into a new one, mayabe to safety, maybe to some bird's mouth, but destiny awaits as for all of us.
Mellow Mushroom. Olive oil and garlic base pizza with grilled steak, portobello mushrooms, artichoke hearts, kalamata olives, provolone, feta, and mozzarella cheese. Very good.
Aidan McGlynn from the University of Texas, presented a paper on the forced march sorites and epistemicist replies to the problem of vagueness called "The Price of Bivalence"
www.sfartscommission.org/pubartcollection/pubart-press-re... (includes link to pdf of map so you can walk the trail)
savemclarenpark.org/SMP4_philosophers.html
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-park-trail-loop-offers...
www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/2013/01/mclaren-park-art...
After a day of anti-ninja (anti-ninja!!) castles, golden pavilions, zen gardens and the like, I went for a very slow walk down the 'Philospher's Trail', a two kilometre path along a stream lined with cherry blossom trees, located in the north east part of Kyoto. It was a favourite route of a famous Japanese philosopher of the late 1800s, early 1900s, called Nishida Kitaro. Back then it was a relatively 'hidden' gem, nowadays it is very much on the tourist trail. Since it was fairly late in the day though I just saw the occasional Japanese local walking a dog, and the above fisherbears on the other side of the stream.