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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 8th, 2009

Disclosing Pedigree Preferences for Philosophy Jobs

There’s been a lot of discussion around the philosophy blogs since Leiter brought everyone’s attention to this illuminating read by […]

September 3rd, 2009

A Glass Ceiling for Philosophy Journals?

I was checking out Ethics Etc today, and I notice a poll they have up. Here’s the question. In deciding […]

September 2nd, 2009

Open Access Philosophy and Self-Publishing

More and more philosophers are calling for open access philosophy journals, but just like academics can move away from proprietary […]

September 2nd, 2009

Take Attendance with Android Phone and Google Forms

Google Forms are turning out to be an awesome for academics. I use it for the Philosophy Journal Surveys. Last […]

August 31st, 2009

Use Firefox Word Count Plus to Check Student Work

I have a course blog. Students are required to post 2 substantive analysis posts on the reading for the semester. […]

August 31st, 2009

Facebook Used to Catch Exam Cheating

This story showed up on Tech Crunch about a week ago. I’m just now getting around to reading it. It’s […]

August 26th, 2009

Journal Surveys: Testing Additional Information Entries

I’ve been playing around with ways to allow philosophers to collectively generate some table of additional useful information about the […]

August 24th, 2009

Have Students Create Your Gradebook Spreadsheet with Google Forms

If you’re using a spreadsheet application to record and calculate grades, then each year you have to get your list […]