I’ve decided that I’m switching to Ubuntu (Linux). I’m also switching to LatTeX. They are both awesome. Here are some reasons why.
Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings
A while back, during my open access rants, Jeremy predicted (in this post) that I would become a Linux user soon. Jeremy, it seems, is a bit of a prophet. [...]
In one of Ted Sider’s recent papers, he’s got a nice section trying to explain why philosophers should care about the metaphysical possibility of time travel. Here’s a passage.
Before expending too much energy on the topic, it is worth thinking a bit aboutits point. Beyond the (perfectly legitimate) desire to set the record straight, isthere [...]
Here’s a funny story about two friends. They formed a group called TEAL (Typo Eradication Advancement League), and they travel the country correcting typos.
SUNY-Fredonia’s own, Neil Feit, has a book coming out this summer.
OUP has a description - plus some nice blurbs from Andy Egan and John Perry on their website. I’m pasting all of that below.
Description
Philosophers typically suppose that the contents of our beliefs and other cognitive attitudes are propositions-things that might be true or [...]
In Four Dimensionalism, Ted Sider briefly presents an argument against three-dimensionalism from the metaphysical possibility of time travel.
Time Travel Argument Against Three Dimensionalism
If time travel is metaphysically possible and three dimensionalism is true, then it is metaphysically possible for a person to be wholly located in two different places at the [...]
At first I thought, “This can’t be real.”
But I looked into it more, and found an article that sheds a bit more light on the video. The guy in the video is Ronald Mallett. He’s a professor at the University of Connecticut, and yes he intends to build a time machine. Here’s a link [...]
UPDATE: I just found recent RSS feeds for Mind and Australasian. The feeds on Ingenta are never current. Once I plugged those into the mashups, the returns for metaphysics papers went through the roof!
For some reason, it takes a while for the tweaks to take effect in the widget. Stay tuned and you should see [...]
Introducing Philosophy Journal Mashups!
Any philosophy journal with an RSS feed can be run through a mashup program. Mashups combine multiple RSS feeds and automatically screen those feeds for specific content. Once you’ve screened the journal articles for the kind of content you want, you can turn the results into a widget to post on a [...]
Lying is prima facie morally wrong. But most people are willing to acknowledge that it is sometimes OK to lie.
Cognitive Daily has an interesting post concerning a study designed to assess when teenagers think it’s OK to lie. You might be amazed at what teenagers regard as permissible defeating circumstances. Here is the link to [...]