Category Archives: philososophy

Zotero = Best FireFox Plugin Ever!

I just discovered the best FireFox Plugin ever! Zotero is a free all-in-one reference/bibliography manager. This one is going to be very useful to help philosophers research and write! Here are some of the highlights that will help you see how great this plugin is.

One-click reference addition.
When you’re on a site with works that list [...]

Presentism: Through Thick and Thin

The journal mashups are still churning out interesting stuff. This article came up. Here’s the abstract.
Presentism: Through Thick and Thin
Abstract: Presentism is the view that whatever exists presently exists. Without defending Presentism, I argue first that Presentists should be Time-Free Presentists – Presentists whose views do not imply that there exist irreducible times. Second, I [...]

2 Ways to Use the Sympoze Bookmarklet

The Social Bookmarklet code I found works perfectly! There are two great ways to use it. Here’s what it looks like.

Sympoze Users: Drag the above link to your bookmark toolbar. Whenever you’re on a site you want to submit to Sympoze simply click on the bookmark. You’ll be taken to the Sympoze submit page. The [...]

Sympoze: Bookmarklet

I’m testing a bookmarklet feature for sympoze. I found a bit of code that should do the trick. I’m testing it out here. If it works, I’ll post about how to utilize it.

UPDATE: It works! I’ll post about how to utilize it in the next post.

Some Changes to the Blog

I’ve been switching somethings around on this site. Here’s what’s new.

I’ve cleaned up the right hand column - a lot. Philosophy BibTeXs and Journal Mashups are now in a new Resources Tab. The Journal Mashups also have a slightly different look. Let me know if you like the old way or this new way better.
The [...]

Zeno on Acne Treatment

I was walking through the store looking for my wife’s face soap when the word Zeno jumped out at me. Philosophers will know why - Zeno is a famous Ancient Greek philosopher.
I snapped a picture of this acne treatment device (see photo on the left)  because the irony was just too awesome.
Let me explain the [...]

Are We Killing the Internet? (Have we already?)

Net-neutrality debates and the issue regarding re-instating a metered internet are starting to get more MSM attention. Here’s a recent New York Times article that came out yesterday.
And here’s a related, interesting column that came out a year ago on pbs.org. It’s not about net-neutrality per se, but it is interestingly related. It argues [...]

Is Concrete Modal Realism true? (Ask Google Images)

Is Concrete Modal Realism true?I think the answer here is clearly, yes! I used to be a linguistic ersatz kind of guy, but thanks to Google images I stand corrected. This is clearly a snap-shot of that possible world where not only is Santa clearly concrete, but I think that’s David Lewis’ counterpart.
(ok…back to work)