Wide Scope A philosophy blog that ranges over philosophy and other fun stuff.

Two very good discussions regarding the recent lawsuit that EndNote makers filed against the makers of Zotero - here and here. Stop using EndNote. [HT: Mark Eli Kalderon] ...

Chapters 3 and 4 are sort of slow-going. The good stuff really comes in at chapter 5. I’m going to quickly lay out brief summaries of chapters 3 and 4. But I’ll warn you now - this will be quick and I won’t have anything substantive to say in this post in the way of ...

Stop using Endnote. Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing Virginia over Zotero. The claim is that the makers of Zotero reverse engineered Endnote to make Zotero. However, it doesn’t look like that’s true. It looks like Zotero allows users to use their own Endnote file and save their bibliographic information back as an Endnote file ...

The move from analog to digital TV will free up a ton of unused white space. The issue is - what do we do with all of that space? The folks at Google are pushing to free it up. Big telecom companies would like this white space to remain heavily regulated and controlled. If this space is ...

I thought this blog should take a quick break from philosophy for some brand new Simon footage. Here he is playing. ...

In the previous post on Justification Without Awareness - I laid out Bergmann’s dilemma for the internalist. The next two chapters explore ways to avoid the dilemma. In this chapter, Bergmann critically discusses two philosophers’ views that grab the weak awareness horn and two philosophers’ views that grab the strong awareness horn. Richard Fumerton Bergmann says that ...

The developers of the module that I use to run Sympoze have just released a massive update. I installed it this morning, and after a brief scare things seem to be running smoothly. I’m still sifting through all of the updates to see what new goodies have been added, but here are two of the ...

I’m teaching special topics course in epistemology this year. We’re going through Michael Bergmann’s new book Justification Without Awareness. I thought it would be fun to post quick summaries of the chapters here, and critically discuss them along the way. Here’s a quick summary of chapter one. Chapter One In this chapter, Bergmann develops and defends a ...

is here ...

Sometimes searching through library websites is a laborious chore. When you first encounter a new library site, it’s sometimes unclear where to go to get what you need. Any one search can take you through a bunch of Herculean tasks. A lot of those tasks dangle a “Full Text of Article” carrot in front of ...