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UAlbany philosophy a'changing
13/05/16
My colleague Robert Meyers is retiring after long and distinguished service to the department. There was a retirement party for him yesterday, and Bonnie Steinbock had the idea to take a group shot of faculty and staff past and present.
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Cartoon reasoning about dinosaurs
13/05/15
In a recent XKCD cartoon (which I've also embedded below), Randall Munroe juxtaposes two claims:
1. "By any reasonable definition, T. Rex is more closely related to sparrows than to Stegosaurus."
2. "Birds aren't descended from dinosaurs, they are dinos -
Market trends in modern philosophy
13/05/10
This semester, I taught the core undergraduate 17th+18th Century Philosophy course again. Earlier this week, at the final class meeting, I asked my usual debriefing questions. Which philosopher did they find the most philosophically rewarding? and which the least?
Here are the results, in -
The paper appears, just like I said it would
13/05/08
My paper with Heather Douglas, Why novel prediction matters, has now made it into the limbo of things published online, waiting in the queue to appear in print. It is now the case that papers in this limbo are assigned a DOI, making them as good as published.
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2013.04.
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