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Brian Leiter links to a nice little collection of famous philosophers’ quotes on the subject “What is philosophy?” here; he also quotes two of the best, in my view:

Philosophy is thinking in slow motion. It breaks down, describes and assesses moves we ordinarily make at great speed - to do with our natural motivations and [...]

The excellent PHD Comics continues its fun-but-painful arc on grading with “You know you’ve been grading too long when…”

I was reminded recently that the expression “adminisphere” has actually entered my lexicon, and recalled that it was part of a useful triad of terms apparently in current military use that have excellent civilian application:

Salmon Day: You spend all day swimming upstream just to get fucked and die.
Adminisphere: The “powers that be” above your immediate [...]

Chaospet.com is beginning a fun-looking series of 12 comics about philosopers, where the philosophers will be Daniel Dennett, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Lewis, Baruch Spinoza, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Kuhn, Jean-Paul Sartre, St. Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, Rudolf Carnap, Graham Priest, and Donald Davidson. The first, on Dan Dennett (”Quining Qualia“), is a nice start:

From Saint Gasoline, again.