There will only be a few minutes left of this month when I hit “publish”. Good, I look forward to December, hoping for snow, more candlelight, more time for movies and games. November has mostly been about applications for postdocs and the race is not yet over. Also, there is always another finishing touch to be made on a paper. I had hoped not to mention the encyclopedia entry on Paternalism in this post, but there it is.

Just now, I finished an ad for myself and my friend Jan Aronson, for the magazine Leva. January 21st we will hopefully start a series of group philosophy discussions, or couceling sessions, for couples. Also, I will offer private philosophical counseling in Stockholm Fridays starting January, see more under “philosophical counseling” in the right hand panel (or “filosofisk rådgivning for Swedish).

I have turned 33. A beautiful number somehow, symmetrical. The day was spent with a few close friends, enjoying board games, good food and drink, hot tub and sauna. Workwise the month was mostly used to finishing the Applied Ethics Encyclopedia entry on Paternalism. I also applied for a post-doc position at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford – very interesting and fun research. By chance I am reading the SF novel Accelerando by Charles Stross, which has popularized several of the ideas which are pondered at the Institute. At the moment I am in Göteborg where I was invited to take part in a philosophy show for Swedish National Radio (Filosofiska Rummet i P1). This provided a welcome opportunity to visit my brother Martin and his family. Though I miss my own little family.