I was nominated for a Liebster Award, which is probably not an award. Actually, my academic diary was nominated, but this is clearly a non-academic subject, and as such does not belong on my professional publications. So I'm publishing it here. I'm going to participate anyway. The rules say that I must A) link back to the blogger who nominated me, B) volunteer eleven facts about myself, C) answer eleven questions asked of me by the previous blogger, D) nominate more bloggers with fewer than 200 followers, and E) ask eleven questions for them. Here you go: I was nominated by Eve Facts about me: 1. I'm both a practicing Mormon, and a PhD student, which makes my philosophical life a narrow but extremely stable catwalk above a roiling sea of unfounded convictions and liberal prejudices evinced by my peers and superiors. 2. I grew up in a very large family, which taught me two things: eat fast, and talk loud. 3. I have never been married, had a child, or been in a long-term, rom...