My department chair is now an internet meme, and it’s awesome. I started it as a joke, saying that Neil Feit riding a unicorn would be a better way to promote logic than the whole Vincent Hendricks fiasco. Here’s the first one we did. Then I got kind of addicted to making them. Here are… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Lewis Powell made this, and you all owe him your respect, admiration, gratitude, and praise. We are all indebted to him for this awesome-ness.… Continue Reading
Funny, but I still favor the laptop policy I introduced a few semesters back. Also, (Spoiler Alert) I wish I could have seen the laptop shatter. The video doesn’t catch it.… Continue Reading
Here she is talking about him on Craig Ferguson [HT: John Basl] 6 Degress of Kevin Bacon to Jonathan Dancy 1. Kevin Bacon to Sean Astin (White Water Summer) 2. Sean Astin to Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings) 3. Orlando Bloom to Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Carribbean) 4. Johnny Depp to Leonardo DiCaprio… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
Bonus points for introducing something like the duplication problem for various theories of personal identity.… Continue Reading
The Monads are back. I suspect a lot of my readers are familiar with the Monads. What you may not realize is that they are back. Kris McDaniel, an original member of the Monads, has revived the group with Ben Bradley and Carrie Jenkins. They are calling themselves “The 21st Century Monads”, and they already… Continue Reading
Sorry, but that was just too awesome not to post here. More philosophy and more journal survey updates are coming soon.… Continue Reading
You know why Lewis Powell is awesome? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle. You know why Lewis Powell is even awesomer? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle this much.… Continue Reading