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Someone started an Academic Philosophy sub-group on Reddit. I love the mission statement. This reddit is intended for practicing philosophers - undergraduate students, graduate students, professors or researchers. People who like /r/philosophy but find the insipid self posts and cartoons tiresome. Persons with academic training outside of philosophy are welcome. Links to articles of merit [...]
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I mentioned how excited I was for the Nook here. A large part of the enthusiasm was that, as an academic philosopher, I really want an eReader that has native PDF support. I want to build a huge, awesome eLibrary of philosophy journal articles. I’m still excited about the Nook, but this enthusiasm has been [...]
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I broke my sidebar. Not sure how. This seems like the perfect time to explore for a new wordpress theme. So, pardon me while I play around with themes for a while. All of the content will still be here. Most importantly, the journal surveys will still be up and running. So don’t be freaked [...]
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UPDATE: The time is 5:30 (not 5) Josh May, a philosophy graduate student from UC-Santa Barbara, will be giving a talk at SUNY Fredonia this Monday called “What in the World is Weakness of Will?” This talk is sponsored by the Fredonia Philosophical Society. Here are the details. Title: “What in the World is Weakness [...]
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Let’s have some more fun with the journal survey data. Yesterday, we ranked a handful of top-tier journals based on review time. Have you ever wondered which of the top (general) philosophy journals are more likely to give you comments? Here’s a bit of data based on the journal surveys. The number to the left [...]
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Just a heads up. I submitted a paper to the Pacific APA today, but the instructions were weird. After you click on the link to submit a paper you are taken to the submission page. At the top of the page is information about you. Below that information is the following set of instructions. Please [...]
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I have a course blog. Students are required to post 2 substantive analysis posts on the reading for the semester. I stagger these deadlines so that every week there are a few analysis posts each week. These posts should be about 250-500 words in length. I also have a weekly 200 requirement. All students must [...]
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I’ve been playing around with ways to allow philosophers to collectively generate some table of additional useful information about the journal for the journal surveys page, and I think I’ve found a really great way to do it. I can embed the following kind of table at the top of each journal page. If you [...]
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Normally, when I see these photo-shopping scandals, some company or university adds someone from a minority race into a picture with photoshop. The goal, of course, is to appear more diverse. I just read this story from Engadget. It turns out that Microsoft Photoshopped an African-American out of a picture for it’s Poland Business IT [...]
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