Time Doesn’t Exist (McTaggart Would Have Loved This)

Here’s an article with the sensational title “Time May Not Exist” - I only had a chance to quickly scanned the article, but it looks like a classic conflation of metaphysics and epistemology. Basically, they seem to be drawing a metaphysical conclusion about the nature of reality based on our inability to measure something. I’m [...]

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More Help For Young Philosophers

UC-Boulder is hosting the first annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, and they have a Young Ethicist Prize. This is exciting. There are now five prizes/programs I am aware of geared toward encouraging young philosophers. Let me know if there are more. Here’s the list I have so far. A Young Epistemologist Prize (Rutgers) A Younger [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions (and some other stuff)

First: New Year’s Resolution I just found out about Mark Lieberman’s excellent New Year’s Resolution via Brian Weatherson’s blog. This is a good one for academics with blogs. I’ve been warned that blogs hurt your productivity. So far it’s helped me, and the Lieberman resolution seems like a good way to make sure that things [...]

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Young Philosophers Lecture Series!!!!

Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a lecture series for young philosophers to get some experience and exposure? Wouldn’t it be cool if this lecture series was podcast in video and audio format so that the entire philosophical community could watch it? Wouldn’t it be cool if the young philosophers gave one talk on [...]

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Welcome to My Homepage and My Blog

About Me I am  an Assistant Professor in philosophy at  SUNY-Fredonia. Check our philosophy department out here. I started here in August 2007. I  received my Ph.D. from University of Rochester in May 2006. The title of my dissertation was Foundational Moral Knowledge. In addition to epistemology and ethics, I have research interests in metaphysics, philosophy [...]

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