16. January 2010 by Raleigh Miller.

My friend Eric recently proposed an argument for the claim that gift cards ought to be illegal.  By “gift card” I mean any certificate purchased from a vendor for $N which may then be offered as tender for $N worth of merchandise from that very vendor.  The vendor could be a retail store (say, a $50 gift card at best buy) or a credit card company (say, a $50 Visa gift card).  The latter sort could be used at any store that accepts credit cards of the relevant sort.   I want to outline and consider the argument. Read the rest of this entry »

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21. September 2009 by Raleigh Miller.

I’ve now moved to Columbus OH, and i’m waiting for classes to begin at OSU.  Today, along with four other incoming graduate students, I’m taking a test to get out of logic 250.  Tomorrow there is a series of meetings and get-to-know you type events.  Finally classes begin on Wednesday.  This Wednesday i’m sitting in on Shabel’s PhilMath class, which I probably won’t end up taking.  Thursday is the Pro-seminar (on the mind body problem), and early next week are the first sessions of Declan Smithies’s “Consciousness” Seminar and Sigrun Svavarsdottir’s “Reasons” Seminar.  Looks like I’m doing straight up contemporary analytic philosophy, M&E, conceptual analysis etc. this semester.

Here goes…

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