Here is the must see session of the day.
II-A.
Author-Meets-Critics: Jennifer Lackey, Learning from Words
4:00-6:00 p.m., Location TBA
Chair:
Peter Graham (University of California–Riverside)
Critics:
Jonathan Kvanvig (Baylor University)
Matthew Weiner (University of Vermont)
Author:
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
All three of the speakers are fun presenters to watch, and they’re great philosophers. This should be good.When Northwestern decided they needed a bunch [...]
I’m in Phoenix. First blog post from an airport. I’m rushing, so it’s got me thinking about typos. Which is really awesome given the main thing I want to post about here.
One worry about blogs is that you may rush yourself and publish too quickly. You’re bound to miss typos. Sometimes I’m bad with [...]
A reputable physics journal withdrew an offer to publish an article because the scientists posted some of their findings online.
This is yet another reason to push open-access.
Two weeks ago, I finished a fun time-travel novel, and it’s still haunting me.I thought I’d blog about it. The book is a little slow-going and long, but worth the read.
The main character, Kivrin, is a history student at Oxford in about 2054. In 2054 they send history students back in time to study history. [...]
Today Dr. James Beebe will present his research talk - A Priori Skepticism. He’s giving an introductory level talk - Fine Tuning Arguments for God’s Existence tomorrow.
The Young Philosophers Lecture Series is something I’ve wanted to try and do for a while, and last semester we received generous support from the Carnahan-Jackson Fund for the [...]
I’ve been ranting about Open Access Journals - Here and Here.
I just found out about a discussion on Leiter’s Blog from a couple of years ago called “Time For An End to For Profit Journals,” - [HT: Philosophy, et cetera]
Also, there are three recent posts out there in the blogosphere on this issue. Here’s [...]
The good news is that I’m going to the Pacific APA next week. The bad news is that I’m flying with Southwest Airlines.
There’s now a website called Rate My Cop. This had some people so furious that groups were seriously seeking legislation to have the site shut down.
I thought, “Nothing will come of this.”
The site publishes publicly available information (the names of police officers), and gives people a chance to voice their opinions. (…free speech etc…)
Imagine [...]
…the April 2008 edition of Analysis just posted to my RSS feed. Here’s the Blackwell Link. Here’s the Link for those of you with Ingenta Connect. This edition looks like it is simply loaded with good stuff.
Also, I just noticed that the January 2008 edition of Analysis is available for FREE at Blackwell.
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