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September 24th, 2009

Journal Review Time Comparisons

Th journal surveys have been up for a couple of months. Now let’s start playing around with the results and […]

September 23rd, 2009

A Trilemma for Journal Referees

Suppose you’ve been asked to referee a paper for a prestigious journal. When looking over the paper you come to […]

September 20th, 2009

Ethics Bowl 2009 Regional Cases

I coach an ethics bowl team. The Northeast Regional Cases are up, but people have been having problems with the […]

September 18th, 2009

Philosophy on the Today Show

Sarah called me yesterday and said, “There’s some philosopher on the Today Show, and Meredith is asking him about whether […]

September 17th, 2009

Drop.io App for Android Phones: Preview

This is exciting. An Android App for Drop.io is in the works! Academics with Android phones should be very excited […]

September 16th, 2009

WordPress as a Replacement Course Management System

Blog platforms are so good and versatile that educators have all of the resources we need to run a course […]

September 14th, 2009

Knowledge Ascriptions in the Wild: Children Using ‘Know’

I’m working on another paper on testimony, and I was drawn to this article on some of the empirical studies […]

September 14th, 2009

Open Access Philosophy: A Proposal

I’m seeing a lot of conferences now that result in edited volumes. This might be an easy way to start […]

September 13th, 2009

William P. Alston (1921-2009)

I just received a really sad email. William Alston passed away earlier today. I didn’t know Alston very well, but […]

September 11th, 2009

3QD Philosophy Prize 2009 Finalist

I woke up this morning to discover that I’m a 3 Quarks Daily Philosophy Prize 2009 Finalist. The contest started […]