I’ll be on the road a lot this summer, so I’m testing out different blogging options from my G1. I’ll be posting something that actually does some philosophy soon.… Continue Reading
We’re officially on break now. That means it’s time to play around with WordPress themes. This one is called Panorama. I kind of like minimalist wordpress themes, and this one is not very minimalist. I don’t know how long I’ll be able to stick with it. If I do keep it, I definitely need to… Continue Reading
I read this post this morning over at Tech Crunch. Amazon has started Kindle Publishing for Blogs. Here’s the weird thing. Anyone can put any RSS feed and sell it to Kindle users – even if they are not the authors. I thought I’d test it out with my blog to see if I could… Continue Reading
There’s a new research foundation called the Northern Institute for Philosophy (NIP) that will be starting up at Aberdeen this September. That by itself is kind of exciting. Then I learned that they have a journal in the works. [HT:Dan Cavedon-Taylor] From the description it looks like it is Analysis-esque. This makes it even more… Continue Reading
I like evidentialism. (EJ) S is justified in believing P iff P is best supported by S’s total evidence. I also like phenomenal conservatism. (PC) If it seems to S that P and S has no defeaters for P, then S is justified believing P. I take it that seemings (absent defeaters) are a kind… Continue Reading
My first review for Philosopher’s Digest was posted today. Here’s the link. It’s on Jonathan Vogel’s paper “Epistemic Bootstrapping” in The Journal of Philosophy (September 2008)… Continue Reading
I thought it would be fun (and useful) post the top links on Sympoze for the month. These are the top 14 from April. Basically anything that received 4 or more up votes is on this list. Enjoy. Richard Chappell’s post “Misleading Philosophical Jargon” led the pack with 6 votes. Misleading Philosophical Jargon X-Phi on… Continue Reading