Hi Felicifia folks,

It's great to see this site staying active. I'm going to put up a separate thread under General Discussion regarding felicifia.com, but meanwhile I wanted to give a brief personal update. I'm gradually making my way through a Ph.D. in Geography at Penn State, which is a comfortable setup for applied ethics work, although it's left less room for online community involvement. There's unfortunate tension between putting ideas online vs. submitting to academic journals. Posting online is immediate, but it brings negligible professional credit and can interfere with the journal route. Ultimately it's time constraints that have pulled me away from Felicifia but I've definitely been here in spirit.

Anyways I hope you're all doing well, and please check out the felicifia.com thread in General Discussion - I could use some input from you on this.

-Seth

Great to see you here at last, Seth

One idea I've been toying with is trying to create an open access journal sister-site, or (again taken from Internet Infidels) a sort of webzine with some peer review facilities. Assuming we could organise it, do you have any sense of how useful it would be to someone in your position (who'd probably be virtually our model of an author)? Ie would the prestige of a new/open-access journal be sufficient to make it worthwhile submitting pieces to it, or would you ultimately have to use the better established ones anyway?

Hi Seth.

I read many of your posts on old Felicifia and found them very thoughtful and rewarding. I look forward to seeing more of the same caliber , be it posts of articles.

Hi Seth, my comments are here

Hi all,

I took some time today to update my personal website. Some changes may be of interest to folks here:

I finally put up a page on my online work
http://sethbaum.com/online/
This includes a brief history of Felicifia through its three iterations (blogspot, .com, .org).

There's also a new page summarizing my ethics views
http://sethbaum.com/views/
This includes meta-ethics, normative ethics (i.e. the specific form of utilitarianism I support) and applied ethics (i.e. what I think my views mean we should be doing these days).

And I overhauled the page presenting my academic publications
http://sethbaum.com/ac/
This aims to make it easier for anyone to understand what the publications are about.

I know many of you are talented with websites, so I'd be interested in any suggestions for further tweaks.

And I'll also say it's nice to take some time to work online again, both on my website and over here. My hope is that as I become more comfortable with things professionally, I'll find it easier to find time for this.