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

I just posted Chris Tucker’s research talk – “What Open-Minded People Should Endorse Dogmatism” This was a great talk. You should check it out. ...

Williamson thinks that the fact that we have yet to come up with a suitable analysis of knowledge post-Gettier, among other things, should push us to accept that there is no analysis of knowledge. He thinks that we should treat knowledge as an unanalyzable primitive. Here’s something I find puzzling, he argues that we should regard knowledge ...

That was fast. Apple announces the iPad, and we already get a response from Google. I definitely would want one of these. Story here. ...

Here she is talking about him on Craig Ferguson [HT: John Basl] 6 Degress of Kevin Bacon to Jonathan Dancy 1. Kevin Bacon to Sean Astin (White Water Summer) 2. Sean Astin to Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings) 3. Orlando Bloom to Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Carribbean) 4. Johnny Depp to Leonardo DiCaprio (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) 5. ...

Sweet! I’ve been using Wp2Go for Android. I love, and it turns out that the folks at Wordpress love it too. Wordpress merged their Android App project with Wp2Go. Itt looks like this new has a wide array of additional features. If you already use Wp2Go you’ll still need to download the app. Search “wordpress” in the ...

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 first time around. Oh well…this is still a pretty ...

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. ...

Next week, Chris Tucker will kick off the Spring 2010 Young Philosophers Lecture Series. Here are the details. ...

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 ...