This will be a short update because I haven't done much since my last one, given the hectic start to the fall semester. (I know, likely excuse.) I do, however, have a lot to accomplish in the coming months, so I'm posting this as a way to clear the deck, so to speak, in preparation for the busy months to come.
I did very little actual writing in the past two months. In the first couple weeks, I finished the book chapter on Batman to the volume editor's satisfaction, and polished up a book manuscript for final submission. Later, I contributed a response to William Irwin's post on inner and outer freedom at Cato Unbound for the October issue (and a further comment should be posted soon). In terms of blogging, I posted three new pieces to Psychology Today: "How Do You Develop a Work Routine That's Not Routine?", "Can Fantasizing About Love Ever Be Enough?", and its follow-up, "What If the Fantasy of Love Is All That You Can Have?" And I continued to stockpile posts for The Virtues of Captain America blog, in an attempt to maintain about a six-month backlog while posting twice a week.
The most time-consuming tasks (outside of college work) dealt with production on two books coming out this year. I reviewed the copyedits for one sole-authored book, and also coordinated the review of copyedits for The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics, liaising with over two dozen contributors as well as the copyeditor. I've been told to expect page proofs for both books in December, a fact I'm trying to use to inspire diligence in writing before then.
Speaking of which... as I mentioned in the last post, I have two conference presentations in early January to prepare for (both of which I've begun), one on a Kantian view of the market and state for an Association for Social Economics session at the ASSA meetings, and the other a commentary on Leo Zaibert's fantastic new book Rethinking Punishment for the Eastern APA meetings.
New to this update are two new commitments. The first is a monograph tentatively titled The Problems with Antitrust, under contract with Rowman & Littlefield International (to be included in my series On Ethics and Economics), in which I will expand on previously published criticisms of the moral foundations and implications of antitrust (such as this article). I promised to have this done by the end of February, after which I turn to the second, a presentation for the PPE Society meetings in late March on the ethics of the economics of the family, on which I touched in this article as well as my chapter for the handbook (generally on Kant and economics), but have never explored at length.
There are a couple more conferences in the spring I'm considering attending and possibly presenting at, which is a big change from recent years when I backed off from conference travel. (Don't ask me why... I haven't figured it out yet.)
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Unfortunately, my plan to devote a certain amount of time each day to writing never got off the ground, partially because I didn't have a significant writing project (with most of the last two months being spent reviewing copyedits and occasionally writing short pieces for various websites or blogs), and also due to campus responsibilities and various personal matters. Now that I do have such projects (especially the book), and administrative duties at school have lessened (being heaviest through September and October), perhaps I can develop a routine... or rather, I need to develop a routine, and stick to it (a problem I addressed in the first Psychology Today post mentioned above).
As the wise men said...
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