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May 5th, 2008

Auditory Illusions

This is interesting. A while back I posted about some pretty interesting cognitive science studies about people having certain perceptual […]

May 2nd, 2008

Young Philosophers Intro Lecture – Joshua Thurow

I just posted Dr. Joshua Thurow’s introductory level lecture titled “Is Morality Real, or Do We Make It Up?” over […]

May 2nd, 2008

Reasoning From Disjunctions

I’m starting to warm up to the idea that there may be a kind of rational inference (apart from disjunctive […]

May 2nd, 2008

Epistemology, Beer, Brats, and Cheese

I just arrived in Madison for the Wisconsin Epistemology Conference. It’s going to be awesome. The line-up of speakers is […]

May 1st, 2008

Wide Scope Descriptivism

Someone visited my blog by searching “What is Wide Scope Descriptivism?” This is a pretty great coincidence because I’m currently […]

May 1st, 2008

Tyler Hansbrough Staying In School To Take This One Awesome Philosophy Class

Funny article from The Onion [HT: Justin Conroy] Tyler Hansbrough Staying In School To Take This One Awesome Philosophy Class […]

April 30th, 2008

New Illusions Blog

This will be of interest to many philosophers. Arthur Shapiro, an associate professor at Bucknell, has started an Illusions Blog. […]

April 30th, 2008

Razor-filled Muffin Left in NYU Philosophy Class

…and yes some poor student took a bite. Fortunately, the student wasn’t injured. [HT: A Philosophy Job Market Blog]

April 29th, 2008

Contrastivism and the Skeptical Paradox

Here’s one standard way to formulate the skeptical paradox. I know that I have hands. I don’t know I’m not […]

April 28th, 2008

Orangutan Attempts to Hunt with Spear

Isn’t this picture amazing? The newspaper running this story claims that this is the first time an orangutan has been […]