Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language: Finished at Last

Academic books are a curious thing. They are essential to the careers of academics, who now need to write lots and lots of them to reach the dizzying heights of Assistant Lecturer (grade B) while their superiors reached the same level 30-odd years ago by having lunch with the Dean and offering to pay for [...]

Book News: Key Ideas and Cain’s

Siobhan and I have received the proofs for Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, which is now scheduled for January 2009. I may regret saying this, but this book seems unlikely to be overtaken by current events.
Not so Cain’s: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint. The administrators of the Cain’s Beer [...]

Catching Up, Moving On

Siobhan and I sent off the manuscript for Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language earlier this week after an intense month of re-reading, revision, collation and correction. We’ve done very little else since early January so there is a lot of catching up to do, but there are also exciting new projects [...]

Philosophy and Sport

As the Key Ideas book nears completion–we’re tidying up the manuscript in preparation for sending it off to the publisher–I have a piece on The Reader Online about philosophy and sport. Here’s a taster:
Philosophers do not have a strong reputation for being active types. In the popular imagination philosophers spend their time in armchairs, eschewing [...]

Key Ideas Has a Cover

As of today we have a cover image for Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. I knew this was coming, but I had no idea it would be so soon. It matches up with the cover for Key Thinkers in Linguistics in the Philosophy of Language, which Siobhan and I published in [...]

Key Thinkers Review

The journal Forum for Modern Language Studies has a nice short review of my co-edited book Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. This is encouraging at a time when work on its sibling volume, Key Ideas is underway. Here’s the review, which appears in Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007 43(1):102-103:
Key Thinkers [...]

Key Ideas Sample Entries Available

Now that the Cain’s book and Siobhan’s book about the influence of the Vienna Circle have gone off to their respective publishers we can concentrate on the Key Ideas project, which has been running alongside up to now. We have most of the entries in now and have begun the editing process. I have just [...]

Key Ideas Entries

Over the past week since the deadline passed we’ve been receiving a lot of entries for the Key Ideas book. I’d forgotten just how time consuming it is processing the entries as they come in, but it’s exciting to see the project start to take shape. And now that the Cain’s book is in its [...]

Key Ideas Project Starting

Work for the Key Ideas book is starting to get underway now. The deadline for contributors to submit entries is 29 June but we’ve already begun to receive submissions. It feels a bit strange to be starting on this project before the Cain’s book is finished, but in many ways it’s good to be looking [...]