Ebook Reader That Might Be Worth It

Here’s a write-up on a new Ebook reader that Plastic Logic just unveiled. It uses the same electronic ink technology that Kindle uses, but has a screen that is about the size of a normal piece of paper. It’s thin, flexible, and durable. Evidently, it can take a beating. If they make this so that [...]

Justification Without Awareness

We’re going to start going through Michael Bergmann’s book Justification Without Awareness in my special topics seminar. I had a lot of fun with our Knowledge of God reading group over at Prosblogion, and I thought it would be good to do something similar for each chapter in Bergmann’s book. So starting next week I’ll [...]

Emotions and Moral Skepticism

Nick Treanor was here last week for our Young Philosophers Lecture Series. I’ll be posting those talks over at Young Philosophers sometime within the next week. In his introductory level talk, he presented a view about emotions, according to which emotions could be rational or irrational. That talk was the inspiration for this argument. Warm-Up [...]

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory

(Clip from The Onion) KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held “theory of gravity” is flawed, and they have responded [...]

Open Source Textbooks

[Update: Bad news philosophers. I contacted the company to see what philosophy offerings they might have in 2009 and found out they have none. It turns out they're only a four person operation and are focusing on just Business and Economics right now.] Awesome. I’ve ranted a lot about open source software and open access [...]