I have some half-baked puzzles for presentism, but before I lay those out - I have a quick warm-up exercise. How Long Is the Present? I assume that if presentism is true, then the answer is durationless. This seems like a fair assumption. However, I vaguely remember someone describing a version of presentism according to which the ...
I just installed a simple Instant Messenger feature in Sympoze. You can IM your contacts and start chat rooms. It seems to work well, but I think you might need to allow pop-ups from Sympoze. It seems like it could be a useful feature. ...
The Social Bookmarklet code I found works perfectly! There are two great ways to use it. Here’s what it looks like. Sympoze Users: Drag the above link to your bookmark toolbar. Whenever you’re on a site you want to submit to Sympoze simply click on the bookmark. You’ll be taken to the Sympoze submit page. The ...
I just set up Sympoze to automatically import each article published in Analysis as it’s own separate scoop. As with the blogroll posts, you must look under the Upcoming Tab. The articles don’t make the front page until users vote them up. I’m going to do this for all of the major journals. It will save ...
I’m testing a bookmarklet feature for sympoze. I found a bit of code that should do the trick. I’m testing it out here. If it works, I’ll post about how to utilize it. UPDATE: It works! I’ll post about how to utilize it in the next post. ...
I just worked it out so that Sympoze will automatically import each post from the blogs I track in my philosophy blogroll and submit it as a scoop. All readers can now sift through all of the posts in my blog roll via Sympoze. Users can vote the blog posts up and have them promoted ...
I decided to start a social bookmarking/content ranking site like Digg or Reddit for philosophers. Here’s the site. It’s called Sympoze. It’s a kind of social network site that will help everyone find really great philosophy content online. The idea is simple: users submit links to philosophy content they like - blog posts, online papers, or journal ...
In the previous post, I did an intuition check. Thanks to everyone who participated. If you haven’t recorded your intuition, here’s the poll in case you want to record it before you read the argument. I had the intuition that pleasure states must have temporal duration. Here’s an argument I’ve been kicking around. The basic idea is ...
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I finally found the poll widget for wordpress that I think I’m going to like. I think it will be perfect for interactive intuition checks. Let’s test it out. I’ve come across an argument in a paper. I’ll hold off on what the argument is - I don’t want to spoil your intuitions. A crucial ...