Given my recent post on the reception of philosophy of religion within the discipline I was stuck by William Vallicella's quote of Daniel Dennett quoting Nelson Pike
If you are in a company of people of mixed occupations, and somebody asks what you do, and you say you are a college professor, a glazed look comes into his eye. If you are in a company of professors from various departments, and somebody asks what is your field, and you say philosophy, a glazed look comes into the eye. If you are at a conference of philosophers, and somebody asks what you are working on, and you say philosophy of religion . . . [Quoted in D. Dennett, Breaking the Spell, 2006, p. 33]
Vallicella's recent post Problems with Dennett's Definition of Religion picks up with a problem on page nine of Dennett's Breaking the Spell. If Bill continues to read Dennett's latest offering (I can't imagne he won't) we can expect he will have much more to say.
