The Future

Now that the basic facts of the case have been disclosed, and the roles of various agents in this wretched melodrama have been exposed, I think it is time to move on to more positive things (though there may be some mopping up to do later). It is now surely clear enough what happened and what did not, and the requisite normative conclusions can easily be drawn. I want to get back to being fully productive philosophically. To this end I have just signed a three-book contract with MIT Press. Two of the books are already written and the third is complete as a first draft. They are: Philosophy of Language: A Student Text, which undertakes to explain classic writings in philosophy of language; Prehension: A Philosophical Anthropology, which is mainly about the role of the hand in human cognitive and linguistic evolution; and Innate Ideas: Why Descartes Was Right, which is about what it says it is about. Expect to see these books appear in the next year or so. I would like to look beyond the recent nonsense and try to make the best of a bad situation. I advise all involved to do the same. This has been good for no one and nothing can be gained by prolonging it.