Philosophy On The Mesa

On April 22, 2007, Dwight Furrow launched this blog, and within our first year we have had over 12,200 hits, over 100 posts, and close to 450 comments. Not exactly a WordPress superblog like CNN Political Ticker, Lolcats, Loldogs, or Gretawire (which all serve significantly different purposes than ours), but still a decent Internet presence. So congratulations to us, thank you to Dwight who made it happen, to our frequent and occasional contributors, to our frequent and occasional guests commenting on the posts, and to all of you who visit us daily or from time to time!

I, too, want to wish everyone welcome to Philosophy on the Mesa, and I want to thank Dwight for launching the blog. We philosophers at Mesa–adjuncts and contract faculty– already have a tradition of convening on a regular basis for discussions about issues in the profession as well as classical and current philosophical topics. We hope to continue these discussions on this site, and we welcome comments from our students and websurfing philosophers in general. Keep your thoughts soaring, your mind open, and your language clean!

Welcome to the inaugural post of Philosophy On The Mesa. All authors on this site are philosophy professors at San Diego Mesa College. Comments are open to the public but you must have an email address to comment. Students are especially invited to comment.

Although we love to discuss philosophy, we have many other interests as well that are worthy of conversation. There is no restriction on topics to be discussed or information to be disseminated, as long as it is legal and not weakly percolating at the bottom of the taste meter. What meter you ask? Well, that is a good philosophical topic, but in lieu of further discussion, Nina’s and mine.

Keep in mind that the success of this blog will depend on how frequently we have quality posts, so if you have something to say, don’t hesitate to say it here.