ALLWAYS DO THE INTELLECTUALLY MOST IMPORTANT THING

said Aron Sloman to me in 1987, when I visited Cognitive Studies Unit at University of Sussex as a PhD student, and asked him for advice on how to find my way as a researcher in between AI and the late Wittgenstein and Chris Freeman and the other scholars, whose work I was introduced to at Arbetslivscentrum in Stockholm. His advice has stayed with me: It helps me remember why I went into academia in the first place: pure selfish joy of being close to reason.In these early days of preparation for the autumn semester, where all the day-to-day business of administration is dimmed, we come close, in reading, in discussing over lunch, in having time to listen to each others ideas and arguments. Nice.