I just posted Joshua Spencer’s intro level talk Time Travel and Freewill. Check it out. Spencer kicked off our 2009-2010 Young Philosophers Lecture Series. I’ll post Spencer’s research talk “A New Counterexample to Principles of Alternative Possibilities” by sometime tomorrow. Also note that we have four excellent speakers ...
I want to talk about the multiple universe response to the Fine-Tuning Argument. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the fine-tuning argument here is a one-page handout that I give my students when we talk about it. It doesn’t contain all of the details of the argument, but it should give you the ...
UPDATE: All of the apps I list below are now annotated. I’ll annotate the other stuff later. UPDATE: I’ve now annotated all three sections, but now I realize a few of the items in the second section are redundant Some of my academic friends are starting to get Android phones. One my friends in the history department ...
I’ve been experimenting with mobile plugins for Wordpress. Mobilepress gave me some white-screen-of-death problems. Then I found Wptouch. It works, and so far I love the layout. ...
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UPDATE: I made the switch. It’s awesome. I’m seriously entertaining the idea of having students submit papers to me by sharing a Google Document rather than my current model. I have 10 reasons why I think this is a good idea. But first let me describe the two models. My Current Model I grade papers electronically. Students submit ...
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UPDATE: Listen to Episode One I track a bunch of philosophy journals in Google Reader. I was reading through them one day and putting stars next to the papers that looked interesting, but then I had to do something (I think it was cook dinner) and I had to stop reading. During these times, I’ve started ...
I gave a presentation to faculty and staff today called about Google services. I focused on 5 cool things academics can do with Google Forms. Below is the slide presentation I used for the talk. I’ll be adding You Tube video in the little boxes soon to turn the presentation slides into a narrated presentation. ...