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When is a planet not a planet?
06/08/24
When it's a dwarf planet.
The voting is complete. The definition of 'planet' approved today had an additional clause: A planet must have "cleared the neighborhood around its orbit."
This means that Ceres (in the asteroid belt), Pluto, Charon, and Xena ( -
Planet? I usually make it up as I go along
06/08/23
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) votes tomorrow in Prague on a proposed definition of the word 'planet.' Space.com has a nice discussion of the proposal here and here.
There are nine canonical planets. The problem begins because one of them, Pluto, is really not up to -
Because I can
06/08/21
I completed my dissertation after digital technology had overtaken document preparation, but before it overtook the submission and archiving of dissertations. I prepared it in LaTeX, processed it as a PDF, printed it on cotton paper, and submitted it in duplicate to the Office of Graduate Studies an -
Wikipedia paper: The movie
06/08/16
To sum up last weekend: The Computing and Philosophy conference had suitable proportions of computing, philosophy, food, wine, and camaraderie. Kudos to the organizers for running a tight ship.
I promoted forall x at every reasonable opportunity. I put out fliers and a sample copy in the -
New versions
06/08/09
I've filled the lacuna in Epistemology and Wikipedia. The conference starts tomorrow, and I present Friday.
I've also posted the updated version of Tom Reid meets Tom Bayes, which continues its quixotic quest to collect rejection notices from the finest philosophy journals.
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The Wikipedia paper
06/08/05
I have a draft of Epistemology and Wikipedia on-line. The paper has existed as detailed notes for quite some time, but I finally hammered it out as paragraphs. It is still waiting on some data, so there is a lacuna in the present draft. I will be presenting it at the Computing and Philosophy Confere -
I'm just here for the natural kinds
06/08/01
In his TV show Good Eats and in his books, Alton Brown explains the physics and chemistry behind various recipes: what flour does at a molecular level, how butter makes biscuits fluffy, and so on. In the introduction to his book I'm Just Here For MORE FOOD, he writes: "To my mind, the grea
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