For all of you local readers, Kris McDaniel (Syracuse University) is coming to campus on Monday to give a talk to the Fredonia Philosophical Society.
He is a great philosopher, and an outstanding speaker. You can check out his CV and some of his papers here. This is a must see if you’re really into philosophy (especially metaphysics). Here are the details.
Title: “Metaphysical Naturalness and Degrees of Existence”
When: February 16 @ 6PM (that’s this Monday)
Where: Fenton Hall 105 (SUNY Fredonia Campus)
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Free services like Qipit and Evernote are awesome for academia, and the Google Phone really unlocks their power. It’s like having a high quality Xerox machine in your pocket.
How These Services Work
I’ll focus on Qipit. First, set up an account with Qipit and give them your email address. Next, snap a picture of something you want to copy. As an academic, you might want a xerox of a book page, a handwritten note, a white board, or a conference handout.
Email it to copy@qipit.com, and Qipit formats it into a nice PDF for you. The result is much better than the original photo because Qipit corrects for potential sources of distortion (e.g. glare, folds in the book, etc.)
You don’t need a Google Phone or an Iphone to utilize this service. Any phone with at least a 1 MP camera will, but the 3 MP camera on the Google Phone probably helps a bit, plus it’s quick and easy to move from taking the picture to emailing it to viewing the result when Qipit emails it back to you.
My Experience
How about a demonstration? I grabbed a copy of Richard Taylor’s Metaphysics textbook. I snapped a picture of the first page of the Freedom and Determinism section. I made the copy public on qipit so you can see the excellent results for yourself.
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For those of you haven’t heard, David Chalmers and David Bourget have put together what promises to be an incredibly awesome resource for philosophers called PhilPapers.
It’s a very massive database of philosophy papers. You can browse up to 200 of the current philosophy journals, browse unpublished papers by philosophers who have uploaded them, and…oh just go check it out…it’s awesome.
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I’m sympathetic to Clayton Littlejohn’s laptop ban discussed here and inspired by Kevin Timpe.
Last semester, I noticed a significant increase in the number of students bringing laptops to class. I know these hurt performance (see Clayton’s post for the empirical data).
I toyed with the notion of banning laptops, but I know there are some students who can and do only bring their laptops to class for notes. So I came up with the following idea, and I’m going to test it out this semester.
The basic idea is to require students to upload their notes on the days they bring the laptop to class. Here’s what I’m pasting into all of my syllabi. (more…)
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My paper, “Two Solutions to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness” was just accepted for publication in American Philosophical Quarterly!
I think this means that I get to stop working for the day.
I’ll post a version of the paper soon. Here is the abstract. (more…)
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UPDATE: Report Finished
I was just asked to referee a paper for a journal. As before, I invite my readers to yell at me in two weeks if I don’t blog that I have finished.
If, by February 5th, I haven’t posted that I am finished you may yell at me.
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Are you an academic with a tight research budget? Do you have no research budget at all?
I’m going to throw Android Applications like Shop Savvy and Compare Everywhere into the mix as one of the ways the Google Phone can be useful for academics.
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Here’s another blog post from my new g1.
I have an attendence policy for all of my classes. Students get a certain number of free absences (2-3), and every absence after that results in a small point deduction from their final grade.
The Android Marketplace has a simple spreadsheet program called “Shead Spreet,” and you can use it to quickly take attendence each day. You can also efficiently use your semester long tallies when calculating final grades.
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I just got my T-mobile G1 (google phone), and I’m using it to write this post. Typing is quick and easy. The keyboard layout is great.
Now I can blog about philosophy - while on the go.
In other news: I am now the technology associate for our professional development center. Because of this, you can also expect to see more posts about technology that I think academics would find useful (including tutorials and reviews of mobile apps that I think would be useful for teaching or research).
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I just added a new feature to Sympoze called an External Vote Button, and I’m hoping that Sympoze users and philosophy bloggers will help me start testing it.
This should make submitting and voting up philosophy blog posts way easier and more efficient for Sympoze users. You can see it just under the title of this post.
You’ve probably read blogs that have these for Digg and Reddit. Bloggers can embed external vote buttons for Digg and Reddit making it super-easy for Digg and Reddit users to vote up the blog post they’re reading. We now have that for Sympoze.
Sympoze users, please help me test this by voting this post up from within the post here at Wide Scope. Note that you should be logged into to Sympoze first. (I also recommend setting up your browser so that it keeps you always logged in to Sympoze, if you haven’t already.)
I also hope some of you with philosophy blogs will help me test this widget by placing it in your blog template. You can do this, even if you’re not a Sympoze user. Instructions are below. (more…)
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