Wide Scope A philosophy blog that ranges over philosophy and other fun stuff.

We (Android for Academics) just released a free, demo version of Grade Rubric - just in time for the grading crunch! Read more here. ...

A few weeks ago, I discovered that you can post to Wordpress from Google Docs. But if you follow those instructions, titles won’t import into Wordpress. However, I just found However, if you follow this set of instructions - titles from Google Docs will import into Wordpress. Now I have a useful tool on my ...

Aren’t there analyses of knowledge that do less violence to our intuitions than JTB, but also have about as good a claim to analyze knowledge in terms of a natural property as JTB (e.g. JTB that isn’t based on false grounds)? If that’s right, then it seems that Weatherson’s defense of JTB in “What Good Are ...

UPDATE - Follow the instructions that I link to here. This is awesome. I just found out that you can set up your Google Docs account so that you can post to a Wordpress blog using Google Documents. Here are the instructions. If all goes well, then this post should show up. UPDATE: It didn’t post the title the ...

Last month, I offered 10 reasons to have students submit papers using Google Documents. I’ve been teaching an online Jterm course for the last three weeks, and I implemented paper submission via Google Docs. I absolutely love it, and I’ve discovered a few additional reasons to have students use Google Docs. ...

Thanks to Jonathan Woolson, any member of the SUNY Fredonia community (someone with a fredonia.edu email address) can create their own homepage/blog using Wordpress at http://blogs.fredonia.edu This is an incredibly valuable service that has been thrown together for our use. I invite you to check it out. I set one up in seconds. Here it is. Since ...

A recent opinion piece in the New York Times argues that Amazon ought collect sales tax on goods bought by customers in states where, currently, Amazon does not collect any sales tax. Here’s a bit of reasoning offered by Jeff Bezos for the conclusion that Amazon ought only pay sales tax in the state of Washington, ...

Evidently, drunk drivers are using twitter to alert each other about sobriety checkpoints - story here and here.  What I find absolutely incredible is a defense of this practice that comes up in both stories. ...

I’m back. The break was great. We went to Jamaica just before Christmas with my wife’s side of the family, and we just finished Christmas with my side of the family. It’s time to start doing some philosophy. The really exciting news is that my wife and my folks went in together and bought me the nook ...

UPDATE: Moved to Front We’ve selected five young philosophers to come speak in our Young Philosophers Podcast Lecture Series. Competition was very tough this year, but we’ve managed to select five. Meet this year’s Young Philosophers. ...