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Sympoze- History, English Job Markets Off 15-20% More on the grim job market.
- 20 Reasons Why 2009 Will Be The Year of the EbookI don't know if 2009 will be the year, but it does seem like a major shift is on the horizon...
- Atoms Arranged MeaningwiseMore on David Foster Wallace and analytic philosophy
- Email Makes Lying More Likely?Interesting article discussing a recent study. The results suggest that people are more likely to lie to people over email than face-to-face communication.
- More on the "Uselessness" of the APAA lot of buzz in the philosophy blogosphere regarding the APA - Here is a recent installment. The discussion is worth the read.
- Men's Winter Fashion - Men's Style Advice - EsquireClick through to the fifth photo [HT: Leiter] - I'm totally adding a fashion tag for this one.
- Seven Suggestions for Future APA MeetingsFunny post from The Philosophy Smoker. Also good suggestions.
- Women Profs Spend More Time on Teaching, Less on ResearchIt'd be interesting to see whether this holds true of philosophy profs. Also, averages are one thing, but another interesting stat would be, what's the M/F ratio of, say, the top 20% of researchers. And of the bottom 20%.
- 60 Philosophy works in 60 DaysA speculative fiction author is reading a classic work in philosophy each day for 60 days, and blogging about the experience.
- Logic for Philosophers - SiderSider has a draft of his logic book up on his website (all 367 pages).
- History, English Job Markets Off 15-20%
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Young Philosophers Updates and Congrats
August 9, 2008 – 10:33 am
Congratulations
Congratulations to Joshua Thurow. A longer version of the paper that he presented in our Young Philosophers Lecture Series was just accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies! Well done, Joshua!
Fall 2008 Call for Papers Update
The original deadline for submission to the Fall 2008 Young Philosophers Lecture Series was August 15th. We’re going to extend it [...]
White House Uses Fox News for Illegal Activity?
August 7, 2008 – 4:33 pm
I went on a Fox News rant a while back. Here’s more fuel.
Philosophers’ Carnvial: Call for Submissions
August 1, 2008 – 10:19 am
I’ll be hosting the next Philosophers’ Carnival on August 11th. Here’s the online submission form. I really enjoy posts that have a nice, clear analytic style. But I’m open to any kind of submission.
I look forward to reading all of your submissions.
Sympoze Change to Submission Module
August 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
It was originally set up so that anytime a user submitted it was automatically promoted to the front page.
Now I’ve set it up (I think) so that a submitted story is placed in the “Upcoming Tab” - It doesn’t get promoted to the front page in its section unless at least one other user votes [...]