The Philosophers Rally – The Future of Philosophy was a vibrant, interesting, local conference. We had many interesting discussions, and there were good talks to attend, not just of the keynote speakers such as David Gamez, but also of Johnny Søraker, on virtual worlds, of Marleen Moors, on technology, certainty and death, and of David Koepsell, on copyrights in the nano-age.
And of course LogiLogi was also presented at the Rally (slides available here). We had an average audience, and received some good questions, especially by David Gamez on community building. Charl Linssen, an occasional developer of LogiLogi, and I also met again in person at the rally, and we had some good conversations, and a few beers together at the campus bar… In all it was a nice conference, and LogiLogi was received positively by those present.
(picture thanks to Charl)
I will be writing my Ba-thesis for history on LogiLogi. It is about the justifiability of Intellectual Property, given the historic and technological developments since the introduction of copyright- and patent-laws.
So yes, I will be eating my own dogfood :-) Not just the final version will be put on-line, but I will write it incrementally and in the open, as it develops. This even though the end-product will still have to be a pdf paper-simulation that can guise as a normal article and be printed and all (to jack into the university system).
With it, as one of the people behind LogiLogi, of course I hope to learn what works and what doesn’t in LogiLogi, and thus how LogiLogi might be improved, but also to have a valuable discussion on Intellectual Property, a subject that is very important to the future of philosophy and free deliberation, and for the kind of society that we and our children may hope to live in.
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