Archives
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2007
-
2006
-
December
-
Year in review, bullet point meme edition
06/12/20
I try to resist picking up too many blog memes, because none of you really care about my favorite color or what kind of salsa I might be. Today, I succumb.
The rule (via Janet) is to list the first sentence of your first blog post from each month of the preceding year. Then write a two se -
Three remarks about inkblots
06/12/19
Last week I was thinking about Rorschach tests, the inkblot tests that psychologists once used as diagnostic tools. A subject is shown an inkblot and asked to say what they see. Their response is supposed to indicate something about them. From what I can tell, psychologists no longer think there is -
Papers hiding and being seen
06/12/18
James Beebe posts at the group blog Certain Doubts regarding double-blind peer review and posting preprints on the web. As he notes, putting a preprint of a paper on your website before it has been accepted at a journal makes it possible for referees to search the web, find the draft, and identify y -
American idol
06/12/09
I had the last meeting of my American Philosophy class yesterday. On the last day of a class, I ask students to pick on one reading that they would recommend leaving out next time I teach the course and one reading that they would recommend definitely keeping. After they write down their picks, I ta -
Data: Bruno, Ilsa, Friedrich
06/12/02
I am sometimes envious of philosophers of language, since any interesting turn of phrase can become a datum. Matt Weiner is especially good at turning bon mots into blog posts. I have been lecturing on Quine's 'Two Dogmas' in my American Philosophy class, however, which gives me an oc
-
Year in review, bullet point meme edition
- November
- October
- September
- August
- July
- June
- May
- April
- March
- February
- January
-
December
- 2005