I’ve put together a website for the Eastern Division, and social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook. Here are the relevant links. http://www.apa-eastern.org https://www.facebook.com/apaeastern https://twitter.com/apaeastern The website should be pretty useful as it stands. I hope it makes it clear how people can get involved with the “Get Involved” menu option, and most of the… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Philosophy Talk is having a contest. You can win their entire archive and come on the show if you win. Details here.… Continue Reading
A reader sent me an email this morning asking if I would share their positive experience with a philosophy journal. This person submitted something to Dialectica and received this PDF. Since this person’s paper is still under consideration, they didn’t want to out themselves during the blind review process. Here’s what this person wrote to… Continue Reading
UPDATE: Moving to the top for the start of the new semester Here’s something cool you can do with Google Docs. I’ve created a couple of short self-diagnostic quizzes so that students can practice distinguishing between valid and invalid arguments. Feel free to embed these in your own course webpages.… Continue Reading
I have an awesome idea. I give my students argument extraction exercises so they can master presenting arguments in numbered-premise form. It’s tough because I like to rotate them out so that students who have had me for four years don’t see the same set of exercises. How about we pool our resources and create… Continue Reading
Thom Brooks just posted some preliminary results of a journal survey he’s been running. Here they are.… Continue Reading
Many of you may be aware of the fact that a leading psych journal is set to publish an article that allegedly supports the thesis that ESP exists. It has set off a debate in the scientific community about data analysis. See the link below. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/science/11esp.html?_r=1&src=tptw The main issue is that some statisticians have long… Continue Reading
I just added 42 journals to the journal surveys page! I don’t think I’ve missed any requests. If you don’t see a journal on the list that you’ve requested, please let me know. I’ve got some other features that I’ll be adding to the survey page soon. For now, get those surveys in and enjoy! Here’s… Continue Reading