For those of you haven’t heard, David Chalmers and David Bourget have put together what promises to be an incredibly awesome resource for philosophers called PhilPapers. It’s a very massive database of philosophy papers. You can browse up to 200 of the current philosophy journals, browse unpublished papers by philosophers who have uploaded them, and…oh… Continue Reading
I’m sympathetic to Clayton Littlejohn’s laptop ban discussed here and inspired by Kevin Timpe. Last semester, I noticed a significant increase in the number of students bringing laptops to class. I know these hurt performance (see Clayton’s post for the empirical data). I toyed with the notion of banning laptops, but I know there are… Continue Reading
My paper, “Two Solutions to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness” was just accepted for publication in American Philosophical Quarterly! I think this means that I get to stop working for the day. I’ll post a version of the paper soon. Here is the abstract.… Continue Reading
UPDATE: Report Finished I was just asked to referee a paper for a journal. As before, I invite my readers to yell at me in two weeks if I don’t blog that I have finished. If, by February 5th, I haven’t posted that I am finished you may yell at me.… Continue Reading
Are you an academic with a tight research budget? Do you have no research budget at all? I’m going to throw Android Applications like Shop Savvy and Compare Everywhere into the mix as one of the ways the Google Phone can be useful for academics.… Continue Reading
Here’s another blog post from my new g1. I have an attendence policy for all of my classes. Students get a certain number of free absences (2-3), and every absence after that results in a small point deduction from their final grade. The Android Marketplace has a simple spreadsheet program called “Shead Spreet,” and you… Continue Reading
I just got my T-mobile G1 (google phone), and I’m using it to write this post. Typing is quick and easy. The keyboard layout is great. Now I can blog about philosophy – while on the go. In other news: I am now the technology associate for our professional development center. Because of this, you… Continue Reading
I just added a new feature to Sympoze called an External Vote Button, and I’m hoping that Sympoze users and philosophy bloggers will help me start testing it. This should make submitting and voting up philosophy blog posts way easier and more efficient for Sympoze users. You can see it just under the title of… Continue Reading
Here’s a good article about Ubuntu (and its founder Mark Shuttleworth) in the New York Times. Here’s an interesting quote. The often quirky software remains in the realm of geeks, not grandmothers. If the machine is built on hardware that is known to be Ubuntu compatible, then I’m not sure the above quote applies. My… Continue Reading
Many months ago I presented an objection to a view called musical perdurantism. Now I want to discuss a different objection. First a refresher. Ben Caplan and Carl Matheson define musical perdurantism as follows. According to musical perdurantism, a musical work is a fusion of performances. On this view, works persist by perduring: that is,… Continue Reading