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
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
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’ve been playing around with Google Chrome’s extension called Chrome to Phone, and I’m completely hooked. The concept is simple enough. You’re on your desktop and you find some information that would be useful to bring up on your phone in the near future (e.g. you’re about to leave your office to go to class).… Continue Reading
I’m the technology associate for our Professional Development Center here at SUNY Fredonia. I’m giving a workshop today called “Google and Course Management”. This will be a more hands-on elaboration of a few specific things I talked about in my previous presentation “What Google Can Do For You?” since we will be in a lab… Continue Reading
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
This was just posted up on Inside Higher Ed. A new study is claiming that law schools lean left in their hiring. The data is based on a sample of 149 hires. They could only get political ideologies for 40% of the sample. And here’s something weird; there is no information provided on distibution of… Continue Reading
Here’s the Quick Tip Tell your students to make sure they can edit the file in Google Docs before sharing (especially if they’re uploading .wps and .doc files). Remind them to leave the “Convert to Google Docs format” option checked when uploading. Remind them to leave the “To Edit” option checked when sharing. Here’s the… Continue Reading
Dear Afraid-To-Major-In-Philosophy, I saw today that someone searched “afraid to major in philosophy” and found my site. I can only assume it was you. I hope you found my Why Major in Philosophy Page, but I thought I’d post the link here just in case. Sincerely, Andy p.s. Go for it… Continue Reading