Do Rejected Philosophers Rate Referee Comment Quality Lower?

It seems that they might. Matti Eklund, one of the editors of Philosophical Review, emailed me asking for some more detailed number crunching on the Journal Surveys section with respect to Comment Quality Ratings. He wanted to test the hypothesis that philosophers who have papers rejected tend to rate the quality of comments lower. So [...]

Young Philosophers is Back!

I started the Young Philosophers lecture series at SUNY Fredonia, when I first started a few years ago. Due to lack of funding, we had to suspend the program for a year. But I’m happy to announce that we’re back! I just posted the Call for Papers. They are due by January 5. Please help me [...]

Pencast Test

Testing this Pencast Test, posted with vodpod

Writing a Short Philosophy Paper

I recently created a short video that summarizes my lecture on how to write a short 3-5 philosophy paper. I thought I’d share it with people in case they want to use it. Here are the handouts I give my students. Presenting, Explaining, and Evaluating Arguments What I’m Looking For A Method for Extracting Arguments [...]

Philosophers on G+

UPDATE: Here’s a more visible link to the spreadsheet I’ve been playing around with Google+ for about a week, and I love it. Since it’s in beta, there isn’t yet a good list feature like on Twitter, and I know philosophers are trying to find other philosophers. So I thought I’d make it easier for [...]

My Review of John Hick’s “Between Faith and Doubt”

I recently reviewed John Hick’s Between Faith and Doubt for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, and I just discovered that it’s already up online. You can check it out here.

We Need More Philosophy Summer Camps

It’s been a little quiet here. I spent the last three weeks at the Purdue Summer Seminar on Knowing in Religion and Morality. It was AWESOME. Met a lot of outstanding philosophers. Had great conversations. Got a lot of great work done. There need to be more philosophy summer camps. I’m going to work on [...]

Win the Entire Philosophy Talk Archive

Philosophy Talk is having a contest. You can win their entire archive and come on the show if you win. Details here.

Sympoze to Crowd Source Peer-Review and Create Open-Access Publications

I am very excited to announce that Sympoze is transforming into an even better service for philosophers. We’re going to use it to crowd-source academic peer-review and create a high-quality open-access philosophy journal and high-quality open-access philosophy text books. I started Sympoze a couple of years ago as a social bookmarking site for philosophers (something [...]

When Does Falsehood Preclude Knowledge - Accepted for Publication!

Woot! I just heard from Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. They just accepted a paper I co-authored with Neil Feit titled “When Does Falsehood Preclude Knowledge”. Here’s the abstract. I’ll post a penultimate version of the paper when I can. ABSTRACT Falsehood can preclude knowledge in many ways. A false proposition cannot be known. A false ground [...]