As I promised, here is a lighter post, no philosophy at all! Well, no philosophy apart from one link.

Between La Barrillette and La Dôle

Firstly, I have edited my photos from a hike in the Jura Mountains just over a week ago and they are now available in my gallery. I’ll add a couple of photos to this post as well. The hike was organised by a French guy named Amaury whom I met at a philosophy seminar here and thought I knew from a conference or something, but it turned out that he’s in astrophysics rather than philosophy so we spent some time wondering about where we knew each other from. After a while it turned out that we were on a hiking trip to Skye some years ago with the St. Andrews Uni hill walking society — Amaury did a Masters there and I used to go there to see my girlfriend at the time. Anyway, it was quite a coincidence to meet in Geneva!

Apart from myself and Amaury, the group consisted of a Polish philosopher, Jacek, who just arrived to Geneva and will be visiting here for a year, my mate Pekka from Finland, who was visiting here just for the weekend, and an Icelandic girl, Milla, who is visiting her boyfriend in Geneva. We took the train to St. Cergue, to an altitude around 1000m, an hour away from Geneva, and walked up to La Barillette (1,525m) and La Dôle (1,677m) from there. As you can see, the day was quite beautiful, while Geneva was covered in thick fog. I love shooting cloud covered valleys and I was quite happy to get some photography done — I haven’t been shooting much recently. Same goes for hiking, I really needed it, and I hope to be able to go once more before I leave Geneva if at all possible.

We got a view of Mont Blanc!

On the topic of photography, I’ve been meaning to go for a shoot in Geneva, but the weather hasn’t been that great. On the few days that it has been good, I’ve been busy with other things, and it looks like I will be quite busy for the remainder of my stay. Hopefully I’ll be able to go for a shoot though, and to post the results in my gallery.

To get some more content here, I’ll post a few links:

I recently discovered this blog about beer, with news about exciting beers and some tasting notes.

This week I’ve been watching an amateur web series called The Guild about online gamers, which is quite funny. Check it out.

And finally, to get at least some philosophical content in, check out Peter Smith’s lecture notes on Gödel Without Tears, where he attempts to explain Gödel in an understandable fashion. I’ve wanted to get some sort of a philosophical understanding of incompleteness for a long time, so I’m guessing that this is my best bet!

That’s it for now, I’ll probably post something about my ‘Varieties of Modality’ talks soon, and perhaps more lighter stuff as well…

Just next to La Dôle summit