Month: August 2018
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An Automated Modal Reasoner
Brian Tackett, a computer science student at the University of Buffalo who previously studied philosophy, has created an “automated modal reasoner.”
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Why To Discourage Laptops in Class (with slides you can show your students)
You may have seen various articles about how computers and phones in the classroom affect student performance.
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APA Announces Winners of the 2018 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize
Each year, the American Philosophical Association (APA) awards the Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize, given to the two best published articles in philosophy written by its…
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Philanthropy for Philosophy: Fleeting Fad or Fertile Future?
“Are we on the cusp of a philosophy giving golden age?”
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Journal of Ethics Founding EIC Steps Down after 23 Years
J. Angelo Corlett, professor of philosophy at San Diego State University, founded the Journal of Ethics in 1995 and has served as its editor-in-chief since…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Here’s the weekly report of new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
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Student Discouraged by Sectarian and Defeatist Professors
A recent college graduate who finished near the top of his class wrote to me last year to share a problem he was having with the…
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Bringing the Philosophy of Self-Knowledge to the Public with a MOOC
Mitchell Green, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, has created an ambitious MOOC (massive online open course) that he will be teaching…
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Online Philosophy Resources Weekly Update
Here’s the weekly report of new entries in online philosophical resources and new reviews of philosophy books.
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“Physics Envy” and Some More Light Verse
The following are three poems from Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Professor of Philosophy at Brown University.