One eyed? Moi?

I am a little bit monomanic. For the past decade or so I have been obsessing about ontology (of biology, mostly, but with a healthy - if that is the word - dose of Aristotelian metaphysics). So when I go to the confirmation seminar (thesis proposal talk) of a really smart student, I actually forgot it was about moral philosophy, and started in on type-token distinctions. When he replied, "but that doesn't affect the moral claims" I wondered to myself, "what's that got to do with it?

Sometimes one forgets there are other topics than the one you like the most...