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The glow of faux precision [or] Caveon, cave off
10/12/28
The NY Times has a story about Caveon, a firm that uses forensic methods to identify students who are cheating on standardized tests. There are reasons to be dubious both about standardized testing and about automated cheater detection. Cases can be made for both, but the deep problem is that they i -
Logicomix and framing
10/12/27
I was gifted a copy of Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, started reading it last night, and - after waking up in the middle of the night - finished it. It is engaging, and I enjoyed it.
Perhaps, as someone who teaches logic, I should have something to say about the book as an explorati -
The undergirding code
10/12/22
The blog software I use is a small open source project. It was abandoned and rudderless for a while, but now a new programmer has taken the helm. The result is the first update in a while. It necessitates a change in the appearance of FoE, but otherwise installed smoothly.
If anything has -
Bibliometric curios
10/12/22
Brian Leiter mentions the fun to be had with Google's Ngram Viewer, a webpage that graphs the frequency of words or phrases in books over time. Two interesting comparisons:
"Immanuel Kant" versus "Thomas Reid" in English from 1800 to the present. As one might expe -
2010 in review, with over three weeks to spare
10/12/06
It is now a tradition to write a capsule review of the calender year's blogging by taking the first sentence from the first post of every month; cf. 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Here it is for 2010.
I: Although there is not consensus about what would make a natural kind natural, most -
A paradox arises over beer
10/12/04
A productive synergy of being a visiting fellow at the Center is that most of my social life consists of interacting with other fellows, and so philosophy gets done even in leisure time. Not all of it is serious philosophy, however, as evidenced by the following item that Bert Leuridan and I concoct
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The glow of faux precision [or] Caveon, cave off
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