Professor Ramin Zahedi of Hokkaido University, who so kindly endorsed my original submission to the Cornell University arXiv site, also encouraged me to submit the paper to the PhilSci archive hosted by the University of Pittsburgh. I have to admit that I wasn’t familiar with this archive, although I had occasionally come across it in my Google searches for information on specific areas of research that I happened to be working on at the time. Anyway, I submitted the paper earlier this month and today I noticed that it has been published on PhilSci’s Live Archive.
The PhilSci archive is run by the Center for Philosophy of Science in the University’s magnificent Cathedral of Learning. The Cathedral of Learning is the tallest educational building in the Western hemisphere, standing at 535 feet (163 m). (It is also the second tallest university building in the world, coming after Moscow State University where I had the experience of delivering an excruciatingly dull lecture – made worse by serial translation – in 2001.) The Center for Philosophy of Science is only on the eighth floor, though. No ivory tower, then.
Submission of the paper gives me a sense of completion, as Pittsburgh was the city where Andrew Carnegie made his millions (billions in today’s money), a tiny slice of which paid for my Carnegie Scholarship to do my PhD in the University of St Andrews. (It is his name, Andrew Carnegie, that – spoiler alert! – I used on page 86 of Lucy and David scrambled as an anagram of the Wane Ringer Cade scholarship that funded David’s research!)
