I just found a Twitter Module for Sympoze. You can now link a Twitter account to your Sympoze profile so that any time submit a story to your Twitter status will automatically be updated with the title and link to the story. You can add your Twitter account under “My Account.”
You also have to enter in what you want the text to be. Enter whatever you want, but make sure to type “!title” where you want the title to appear and “!url” where you want the link to appear.
The Module is supposed to have other cool features, but they don’t seem to be operational at the moment. I’ll have to play around with it more.
But for now, if you want your Twitter status updated with a link to the Sympoze stories you submit.
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Ben Caplan is giving a talk tonight at 6PM in Fenton 108.
The title of the talk is “Against Sonicism” - and the general topic of the talk is ontology of art.
Here is a link to Ben Caplan’s review of Julian Dodd’s book. Dodd’s book is a defense of Sonicism, so Caplan’s discussion in the review should give you a nice, quick overview of the topic if you’re interested.
For those of you locals who read this blog, if you want to see an excellent philosopher in action - come check it out.
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It seems to be pretty well established that the manner in which information is digested has an impact on both short term and long term retention of the material.
For example, people who study in short bursts with frequent breaks in between retain more information than people who sit down for a 2 hour uninterrupted chunk of studying. The same seems to hold true of people who do a little review each day throughout the semester (as opposed to people who return to their notes the night before the exam).
With this in mind imagine two students who have tests and papers that average out to a 95 A. However, also imagine that one student was always in attendance. He never missed a day, but the other student missed half of the class. (more…)
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A few weeks ago, I posted some very general materials that I like to use at Major Information Day fairs.
Philosophers can use those at your information fairs. There’s no reason for all of us to spend time making these kinds of flyer. Also, if you’re a student and you want some information to print out for the naysayers (e.g., parents) - now you’ve got some. (If you had to give the naysayers just one thing, I recommend the THINK FLYER.)
I’m now adding a flyer called “Philosophy and Medicine” to the mix. (more…)
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A while back, I blogged about why I think Twitter can be good for professional philosophers. Within the last few weeks, my enthusiasm has grown - so I’d like to say a bit more.
I’m now following quite a few philosophers on Twitter, and the result of this is an excellent stream of up-to-the-minute philosophy news.
Twitter gets reamed as the latest form of internet narcissism, but there’s a lot more of value in twitter that I think is easy to overlook. (more…)
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Continuum Press contacted me a few months ago and asked if I would edit a Companion to Epistemology. I accepted, but I didn’t blog about it because I still had to go through their standard proposal process.
Now I can blog about it. (more…)
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It’s been awhile since I’ve banged the open source drums. Here’s random assortment of interesting open source news that I’ve bookmarked over the last month. (more…)
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I’m leading a discussion today at a local high school. There is a BIG READ program that our library has a grant for, and I was asked by the director if I would be willing to lead a discussion on some ethical issue(s) that come up in To Kill a Mockingbird at some local high schools.
It seems like an excellent way to introduce students to a wide range of issues in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law.
I decided that the discussion topic will be on moral issues related to breaking the law. (more…)
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My dad likes to point out several key moments in my life where (in hindsight) it seems very clear to him that I was destined to go into philosophy.
My favourite one is when I was about four or five years old. I tell this one to my students a lot. I thought I might as well post about it. (more…)
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Story here.
Read on to the end. Ken (the author of the post and the open source advocate in the story) reports about a conversation he had with other members of the attacker’s party. This conversation happened after the attack. The discussion reveals something interesting about the technical support strategy that underlies tech support for machines with Microsoft.
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