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  philosophy

December 11th, 2008

Sex With Robots: Is it Cheating?

I’m with Brian on this one (he’s the guy with glasses in the video). Particularly his second thought experiment. Update: […]

December 2nd, 2008

Experimental Philosophy

Here are two quotes from the first few pages in the new reader Experimental Philosophy edited by Joshua Knobe and […]

November 22nd, 2008

Safety in Fake Barn Country

I’ve been writing a lot about safety accounts of knowledge recently (here and here). It’s time for more. My concern […]

November 18th, 2008

Forgiveness Without Moral Judgement?

I’m working on a revise and resubmit, and there’s an interesting issue that I’m going to have to deal with. […]

November 18th, 2008

Safety Accounts of Knowledge and Gettier

Last week, I laid out some problems for the naive safety account of knowledge that Pritchard presents early in his […]

November 5th, 2008

Safety Accounts of Knowledge

In the epistemology class I’m teaching, we’ve moved on from Bergmann’s book to Pritchard’s book Epistemic Luck. Here’s a principle […]

October 27th, 2008

Open Source Voting

Here’s a good discussion about how eVoting should be done. Of particular interest, is the case made for using an […]

October 21st, 2008

What Plagiarism is OK?

I had three hits today on my website from somebody googling “What Plargiarism is OK?” – Here is your answer…none.

October 16th, 2008

God Wins in Nebraska Court

Here’s the abstract of one of NPR’s Morning Edition stories this morning. Morning Edition, October 16, 2008 ยท A Nebraska […]

October 12th, 2008

How Linux Can Help Reduce Poverty

I’ve ranted a lot about how awesome I think Ubuntu is. It’s a super, user-friendly Linux alternative to Mac and […]