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Archive for November, 2009

Young Philosophers Schedule: 2009-2010

11.30.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

UPDATE: Moved to Front We’ve selected five young philosophers to come speak in our Young Philosophers Podcast Lecture Series. Competition was very tough this year, but we’ve managed to select five. Meet this year’s Young Philosophers. ...

Kent State University Switched to Google Apps

11.30.2009 · Posted in educational technology

It turns out Kent State University has already switched to gmail for their mail services. Now all students and faculty will be able to use a wide range of additional Google Apps services. Story here. The dominoes are starting to fall. I really hope that SUNY-Fredonia is somewhere next in that domino line. In case you haven’t ...

Testing Audio Plugins

11.30.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

I’m playing around with some wordpress plugins. If this works, an audio player should be embedded here with a brief test recording. Update: Wow. That was painless and easy. ...

Wisdom Teeth and Thanksgiving Hiatus Over

11.29.2009 · Posted in Uncategorized

Alright. I’m finally starting to feel better from the wisdom teeth removal, and Thanksgiving break is nearly over. Blogging will continue soon. I’ve actually been working on a few posts periodically throughout the break. I also have a couple new idea that I’m going to start incorporating into this site that I’m pretty excited about. More on ...

November Must Be Philosophy Survey Month

11.18.2009 · Posted in the profession

There’s a lot of surveying going on in philosophy, and it’s not the X-Phi guys. All of these surveys are designed to generate interesting data about the profession. Survey on Publishing in Philosophy Sally Haslinger is gathering data about publishing in philosophy. Word on the street is that she’ll report about the results at the Eastern APA. ...

What is Magic?

11.10.2009 · Posted in fun

I don’t believe in magic. At least, I thought I didn’t. Then I started worrying that I might not actually know what the heck it is that I am denying the existence of. So…let’s try to analyze it. ...

“Believe That” and “Believe In”

11.08.2009 · Posted in metaphysics, philosophy of language

I’m attracted to a traditional account of the semantics of belief reports which holds that the semantic content of a belief report of the form ‘S believes that P’ is a two-place relation that holds between a person and a proposition. I’m curious about other common phrases in English that (a) use the word ‘believe’, (b) ...

SUNY Schools Switching to Google Apps

11.04.2009 · Posted in educational technology

Google Apps offers a free Education Edition to schools. Schools can provide all of their faculty, staff, and students with a gmail account that uses the school’s domain! It gets better, Google Apps comes with more than free, reliable, searchable email (with 7GB of storage space!). Your college Google account comes with free IM, free Video ...