Monthly Archives: August 2010

Teaching Students About Arguments (My Google Slides)

At the beginning of each semester, I teach all of my students about basic argument structure and vocabulary (e.g. valid, invalid, sound, and unsound) and get them familiar with the practice of presenting arguments in numbered-premise form. I’ve started using Google Presentations as a cool way to let them self-diagnose. I’ve created two presentation slides.Continue Reading

Grade Book for Android!

We (Android for Academics) just released a grade book program. I’m pretty excited about this. It’s been in the works all summer, and I’m very happy that we could get it out for the start of the fall semester. That’s really all due to  Jon Nalewajek – he did all of the coding on thisContinue Reading

Critical Review of Lackey’s “Learning from Words”

I was invited to write a critical review of Jennifer Lackey’s book Learning from Words. I just submitted a draft to Philosophical Books for review, but I still welcome comments/feedback. In short, despite the fact that I disagree with Lackey on a number of issues, I think this book is excellent. Here’s a link toContinue Reading