[UPDATE: An alternative method explained at bottom of post.] A lot of us are furiously crunching numbers into Spreadsheets, but then we’ll have to convert those final grade percentages to letter grades. Here are some formulas you can use to automatically generate a Final Letter Grade from your students Final Grade Percentage. Even if you can do ...
You know why Lewis Powell is awesome? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle. You know why Lewis Powell is even awesomer? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle this much. ...
I finally finished making some stylistic changes to “Moral Perception”. It’s forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy. I posted this recent version of it on my Research Page, but you can also click here. ...
A while back, I argued that we philosophers ought to shift our practices so that all of our research was published in open access mediums. I then suggested several strategies for what the discipline needed to do. One of the suggestions was that the editorial staff should simple migrate the journal into an open access forum. I ...
John Basl has compiled a list of Philosophers using Twitter. This list keeps growing, and I just wanted to help John spread the word. If you don’t know what Twitter is check out his follow up post here. In that second post he discusses the issue - Why would a philosopher want a Twitter account? I ...
I’m with Brian on this one (he’s the guy with glasses in the video). Particularly his second thought experiment. Update: The link to the video is here. I took out the embedded video because it automatically plays. Which can be annoying to readers - especially return readers who have already seen the video. More Nuanced Position: Even ...
Here are two quotes from the first few pages in the new reader Experimental Philosophy edited by Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols. Of course, the most salient difference is just the fact that experimental philosophers conduct experiments and conceptual analysts do not. Thus, the conceptual analyst might write, “In this case, one would surely say…,” while ...