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

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 ...

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A recent opinion piece in the New York Times argues that Amazon ought collect sales tax on goods bought by customers in states where, currently, Amazon does not collect any sales tax. Here’s a bit of reasoning offered by Jeff Bezos for the conclusion that Amazon ought only pay sales tax in the state of Washington, ...

Evidently, drunk drivers are using twitter to alert each other about sobriety checkpoints - story here and here.  What I find absolutely incredible is a defense of this practice that comes up in both stories. ...

I’m back. The break was great. We went to Jamaica just before Christmas with my wife’s side of the family, and we just finished Christmas with my side of the family. It’s time to start doing some philosophy. The really exciting news is that my wife and my folks went in together and bought me the nook ...

It’s finals week here at SUNY Fredonia, and I thought I’d share a quick and easy to record those final exam grades using Google Forms. Create a Google Form with 2 Questions - one for Lastname and one for Points. (the resulting form will look like this) Give yourself an easy way on your computer to refresh ...

I just posted Joshua Spencer’s research talk titled “A New Counterexample to Principles of Alternative Possibilities.” Check it out. Aside: This is by far the fastest, I’ve been able to get these talks up (thanks Flip HD). ...

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 ...