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Blog software update
08/01/26
I have updated to the new version of SimplePHPBlog. This broke the theme I had been using, but I have hammered the default theme into some approximation of it. If the change has broken anything else, please let me know either in comments or by e-mail. -
The teaching meme
08/01/25
Janet has tagged me with the following question: Why do you teach and why is academic freedom critical to that effort?
The glib answer is that I teach because it pays the bills, and without academic freedom it would be more fun to work at a coffee shop instead.
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I can never post at the same blog twice
08/01/11
In the comments at Brian Leiter's blog, several of us have been discussing what it means for the profession that so many philosophy papers are available for download. David Velleman writes:
The recent trend toward conducting philosophy in ephemeral venues such as blogs and online postings, -
Reaching out toward Exceeding Our Grasp
08/01/10
In a previous paper about Kyle Stanford's New Induction, I interpreted it as a wholesale argument and argued that it fails. I had occasion to rethink this while teaching his book, Exceeding Our Grasp, in a seminar last Fall. I now think that it can succeed as a retail argument. I have posted a -
forall x rides again
08/01/10
In my logic class, I offer students extra credit for finding errors in forall x. As errors are discovered and corrected, opportunities for these bonuses are diminishing. I have now fixed the minor errors that students found last Fall, yielding the new version 1.24 [080109] -
Blog meetup
08/01/09
I was in Las Vegas for a couple of days visiting my brother (who blogs at Age Against the Machine), his wife (who blogs at Short Woman, Central Sanity, and the eponymous Bridget Magnus), and their son (who does not blog yet).
I also took the opportunity to meet up with Greg (who blogs at -
A trivial trio for the new year
08/01/01
Three items related to papers and publication:
Preprint, postprint
Christy Mag Uidhir and I had talked about coauthoring a paper on the ontology of musical performance and recording. I even listed the planned collaboration on my faculty activity report a couple of years ago, but we n
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