|gil-ēz| or |gil-is|?

the ‘a’, ‘n’, and ‘h’ in anthony are all silent. (so is the ‘7’, but that is also invisible.) and anthony is usually spelled thony. the ‘e’ in gillies is also silent — someone once told me it’s a scottish thing — but that never affects the spelling.

new(ish) paper, again

My paper on ‘might’ and belief revision is now out. Well, sort of. Springer journals now publish papers “Online First” — papers appear in their final form and can be downloaded before the print version hits the shelves. This seriously reduces the lag between when a paper is accepted and when it appears, so I am in favor. Plus, the official publication date is the online publication date. That isn’t terrible when you’re on this side of the tenure divide.