I just got some awesome news this morning. My paper, “Three Millian Ways to Resolve Open Questions” was just accepted for publication in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
Another reason I’m particularly excited about this is that JESP is an open-access journal! I hear they move pretty quickly through the whole process, so I expect that I’ll be able to link to the final version soon. For now, here’s the abstract. (more…)
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Awesome.
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UPDATE: Finished that report
I just finished that last referee report that I posted about a few days ago, so that invitation to yell at me is now off the table.
However, something funny happened today. I just received another request to referee a paper. So now you may yell at me in two weeks if I don’t report back to this post that I’ve finished this new report.
To keep things simple - let’s keep the (March 9) due date for me. I officially have less than two weeks to finish this report.
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When I started teaching and having service duties, I started going to those major-information-day-events. I’ve compiled materials over the past few years that I use at those fairs, and I thought it would be good to start sharing those with the philosophical community.
I also occasionally have students who come to me with a dilemma. They love philosophy, but they’re afraid of what their parents will say. There is a large misconception out there (as many of my readers are surely aware of) that philosophy is an impractical, BS major. Posting these materials will be useful for those students. They’ll have something to direct their parents to.
Most of this information you can find out there on the internet, but I thought it would be useful to have some of it consolidated in an easy to distribute format. Here’s what I have so far. (more…)
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UPDATE: [Finished the Report]
I was just asked to referee a paper for another journal. You know the drill. If after two weeks (March 9), I haven’t updated this post saying that I have finished the report…you may yell at me.
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Zotero 1.5 just launched their beta version. I’ve been playing around with a preview version of this. It was awesome then, and it looks like the beta version is loaded with even more goodies.
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For those of you who subscribe to my blog, sorry about all of those test posts. I was trying to get a plugin called “Postmaster” to work, and I’m still having problems. Here’s a picture of Simon reading that should make up for the inconvenience.
Evidently, Lecture II is delicious.
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Mark Shuttleworth announced Ubuntu 9.10 (aka Karmic Koala) today. It looks like there’s going to be some heavy emphasis on streamlining it so that it works even better with netbooks.
Ubuntu already works great with netbooks. In fact, I think Linux actually spawned the netbook craze that peaked around Christmas last year. So this is exciting news.
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I opened a spreadsheet in google docs today and discovered that I can now edit my google doc spreadsheets from the google phone!
Google was heavily criticized for not hitting the ground with this kind of functionality. I’m glad to see they’re so quick to work on this.
This really opens up the phone for some useful classroom stuff. I’ll post about that later, but this is very good news for google phone users.
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The A.J. Ayer vs. Mike Tyson story may not be news to a lot of philosophers. It seems to come up often whenever philosophers go out for drinks. In fact, it came up tonight after Kris McDaniel’s talk.
But I was thinking it would be cool if, somehow, the page from his biography that recaps the story just happened to be one of the pages that shows up in the Google Books preview of the biography. Sure enough, it was. Here’s the link to the Google Book page so you can pass it on to EVERYONE.
And, if you just want to read the awesome paragraph that contains the story. Here it is.
At yet another party he had befriended Sanchez [Fernando Sanchez, a fashionable designer famous for women's underclothes]. Ayer was now standing near the entrance to the great white living-room of Sanchez’s West 57th Street apartment, chatting to a group of young models and designers, when a woman rushed in saying that a friend was being assaulted in a bedroom. Ayer went to investigate and found Mike Tyson forcing himself on a young south London model called Naomi Campbell, then just beginning her career. Ayer warned Tyson to desist. Tyson: “Do you know who the fuck I am? I’m the heavyweight champion of the world.” Ayer stood his ground. “And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field; I suggest that we talk about this like rational men.” Ayer and Tyson began to talk. Naomi Campbell slipped out.
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