(Formerly "Beakley's House of Style" -- until that bitch stole my title!)

Brian Beakley --- a cat so that he must have his own Web page.

**Who is Brian Beakley?**

This hot-blooded Cancer embodies all that is best in Analytic Philosophy at EIU -- indeed, all of Analytic Philosophy at EIU, except maybe ethics. A moon child, Beakley is naturally drawn to water, cash, and dark troubles of every sort. Turn-ons include romantic sunsets over the soyfields; dressing in black and jumping up and down in Chicago; dinner and GB syntax by candlelight. Turn-offs: insincere people; insane landlords; people who still haven't bought a copy of the Beakley & Ludlow Philosophy of Mind book

Famous last words: "That's doctor dumbass to you, pal."

The 411:

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Eastern Illinois University

Office: 316J Coleman Hall

Phone: (217) 581-3964

Education:

B.A., Philosophy: University of Pittsburgh (1985)

Visiting Scientist: MIT Linguistics (1989-90)

PhD, Philosophy: SUNY Stony Brook (1992)

Research: My attention right now is focused mainly on not getting fired, but I do work on models of scientific explanation, philosophy of mind, and generative syntax. I'm also tinkering with a crackerjack little logic book that should be ready for the millenium. (Notice I didn't say which millenium)

But if you can't wait that long, check out some of my SPAM Haikus (#3405, 3409, and 3412). Who says I never publish?

And for DOS's sake, visit my RetroComputing Pages!

New: A growing collection of cutesy cat pictures -- plus a beefcake shot, for the ladies....
Picture Album

Beakley Is as Beakley Does:
Some Preferred Links

The Sade Page: a Web altar to the Queen of Cool

Thrill as the Pizzicato Five page introduces Japan's coolest combo to the U.S. and the whole world

Dig the rapid-fire rap of Bone Thugs 'n' Harmony

Dress in black to check out the Gothic Home Page

Dress in black to check out FBI central, and have a cup of joe at a Twin Peaks Page

Browse Cindy Demarco's catalogue of American-made fashions -- very slick!

Pay a formal visit to the Harvard/Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Club

Visit a Taoist Page

Think good witches only exist in The Wizard of Oz? Then raise your consciousness to The Witches' Voice, and get hipped to the latest battles for religious freedom

Sanctify yourself at Anglicans Online!

Shake the hand of the first President of Pennsylvania, at the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin page

And don't miss Noam Chomsky's Home Page

You can now:

Return to Philosophy Faculty Page

Go to the Philosophy Department Home Page

Last chance (on this web page anyhow) to check out my bitchin' Retrocomputing Pages (Warning: Actual bitchin-ness may vary)

Get spun off to some random web page through URouLette

Cast the Tarot

Go soak your head

Advice to Young Philosophers:

"Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not. To be valued, things must be difficult: if they can't understand you, people will think more highly of you. ...Keep them guessing at your meaning, and don't give them a chance to criticize you. Many praise without being able to say why. They venerate anything hidden or mysterious, and they praise it because they heard it praised."

--Balthasar Gracian (17th century Spanish Jesuit), The Art of Wordly Wisdom (trans. Christopher Maurer)

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This page created July 1995 by BB
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