I just found a Twitter Module for Sympoze. You can now link a Twitter account to your Sympoze profile so that any time submit a story to your Twitter status will automatically be updated with the title and link to the story. You can add your Twitter account under “My Account.” You also have to enter ...
Ben Caplan is giving a talk tonight at 6PM in Fenton 108. The title of the talk is “Against Sonicism” - and the general topic of the talk is ontology of art. Here is a link to Ben Caplan’s review of Julian Dodd’s book. Dodd’s book is a defense of Sonicism, so Caplan’s discussion in the review ...
It seems to be pretty well established that the manner in which information is digested has an impact on both short term and long term retention of the material. For example, people who study in short bursts with frequent breaks in between retain more information than people who sit down for a 2 hour uninterrupted chunk ...
A few weeks ago, I posted some very general materials that I like to use at Major Information Day fairs. Philosophers can use those at your information fairs. There’s no reason for all of us to spend time making these kinds of flyer. Also, if you’re a student and you want some information to print out ...
A while back, I blogged about why I think Twitter can be good for professional philosophers. Within the last few weeks, my enthusiasm has grown - so I’d like to say a bit more. I’m now following quite a few philosophers on Twitter, and the result of this is an excellent stream of up-to-the-minute philosophy news. Twitter ...
Continuum Press contacted me a few months ago and asked if I would edit a Companion to Epistemology. I accepted, but I didn’t blog about it because I still had to go through their standard proposal process. Now I can blog about it. ...
It’s been awhile since I’ve banged the open source drums. Here’s random assortment of interesting open source news that I’ve bookmarked over the last month. ...
I’m leading a discussion today at a local high school. There is a BIG READ program that our library has a grant for, and I was asked by the director if I would be willing to lead a discussion on some ethical issue(s) that come up in To Kill a Mockingbird at some local high ...
My dad likes to point out several key moments in my life where (in hindsight) it seems very clear to him that I was destined to go into philosophy. My favourite one is when I was about four or five years old. I tell this one to my students a lot. I thought I might as ...
Story here. Read on to the end. Ken (the author of the post and the open source advocate in the story) reports about a conversation he had with other members of the attacker’s party. This conversation happened after the attack. The discussion reveals something interesting about the technical support strategy that underlies tech support for machines ...