So far, I’ve posted some preliminary comparative data on some of the top general philosophy journals. We’ve seen comparisons based on average review times and comparisons based on percentages of submissions that received comments. Now let’s look at the likelihood that a journal will give you a second chance. I’ve taken the same general journals from ...
I’ve been watchinig the first season of the new Dr. Who. There’s an episode called “Aliens of London” that involves a pretty interesting Gettier case. Dr. Who Gettier Case Aliens are invading Earth. Part of the alien plot involves making people think there is an alien invasion in a way that is much different from the way ...
Let’s have some more fun with the journal survey data. Yesterday, we ranked a handful of top-tier journals based on review time. Have you ever wondered which of the top (general) philosophy journals are more likely to give you comments? Here’s a bit of data based on the journal surveys. The number to the left ...
Th journal surveys have been up for a couple of months. Now let’s start playing around with the results and have a little fun. I’m picking a list of some of the top, general journals to compare reported review times. Below I’ve listed the average review time and the mode (both in months). I’ve also ...
Suppose you’ve been asked to referee a paper for a prestigious journal. When looking over the paper you come to realize that you’ve refereed this paper for the another prestigious journal. You have a few options. They all seem bad to me. Option One: Decline to Referee the Paper (Give no reason) This seems bad. You don’t ...
I coach an ethics bowl team. The Northeast Regional Cases are up, but people have been having problems with the site. I’m posting a link to the cases this year so that other people in the Northeast have another website to grab a copy of the cases. I also want a place for my own team ...
Sarah called me yesterday and said, “There’s some philosopher on the Today Show, and Meredith is asking him about whether or not philosophy is relevant to people today. They’re also talking about all those trolley cases that you love to talk about.” I couldn’t find the video yesterday. But I found it today. Here it is. ...
This is exciting. An Android App for Drop.io is in the works! Academics with Android phones should be very excited about this. I use Drop.io to have students submit papers. I use Drop.io to help me share files with students, but still be within Fair Use Guidelines. Drop.io is, all around, an incredibly useful tool ...
Blog platforms are so good and versatile that educators have all of the resources we need to run a course management website without the need for proprietary software. Blogs do just about everything a course management software system can do and more. There are also several other benefits to do something like this with a ...
I’m working on another paper on testimony, and I was drawn to this article on some of the empirical studies done on children and testimony. Something caught my eye that is completely unrelated to the topic of the paper. It’s another knowledge ascription. I like making note of knowledge ascriptions in wild. Here’s the one ...