I’ve decided to start a new philosophy blog, called Inverted Spectrum after the famous thought experiment, containing thoughts, issues and reading notes relating to my Ph.D. research in the philosophy of mind, perception and epistemology. Although I will continue to maintain the current site—indeed I’ve recently given it something of a facelift in the form of a new design (courtesy of iWeb’s ‘Elegant’ theme)—this blog will be put in mothballs until such time as I’m able to reinvigorate it with a raft of exciting new content (i.e. for the foreseeable future).

In part, my reason for switching sites is that the software I’m using to publish The Real World (Apple iWeb) is not ideally suited to text-based blogging as it requires the entire site (including my personal and technology pages) to be updated all in one go. Unfortunately, since I like to work on several different updates in parallel, this makes it difficult to publish one site independently of the others, which generally slows down the pace of updates. My hope is that with the new web-based blogging site (WordPress), I will be able to keep my philosophy blog more up-to-date even when away from the computer thanks to WordPress’s iPhone application. In addition, WordPress blogs also support the use of categories, which makes it easier to classify and navigate blog entries—a feature that iWeb is, IMHO, sorely lacking.

Those of you who have been following my philosophical activities to date may be interested to know that I’ve recently uploaded a copy of my M.Litt. dissertation, entitled ‘Time-Consciousness and the Present’, to Academia.edu, another web site that I’ve been using of late. Although more suited to publishing formal talks and papers, I will be keeping my academic profile page on that site up to date, via which PDF copies of my dissertation, recent talks and other content may be downloaded.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you continue to do so and to comment on my work at its new home of invertedspectrum.wordpress.com.

Best wishes,

Keith.