Archive for the ‘academia’ Category
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
You may have seen the news that those Krazy Katholics are planning to get rid of the Wacky World of Limbo (see, for example, "Limbo consigned to history books", or "Limbo, an Afterlife Tradition, May Be Doomed by the Vatican"). Limbo, as you may recall, is that eternal afterlife ...
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005
Back from a few days away giving a talk 'n workshop at UConn. Fun and stimulating, and they were beyond hospitable. But there's no place like home, Toto.
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
So, it's come to this: "Christian Schools Bring Suit Against UC". Sounds like the University of California system is not treating the anti-science and non-accredited "educations" given to kids via fundy and home-schooling with the honor and respect they think they deserve.
Christian Schools Bring Suit Against UC
...University of ...
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Saturday, August 27th, 2005
A year or so back, I wrote a little rant here (Why academia tends to be liberal) about conservatives whining over the apparent overrepresentation of liberals in academia. Same old crap -- they try to make it seem like there's some targeted discrimination against conservatives, and that this is ...
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Friday, April 29th, 2005
OK, I was just teaching the classic philosophy of mind piece from Thomas Nagel, "What is it Like to Be a Bat" today, and then I see this link (via Boing Boing): Pat Fletcher, blind for 25 years, hasbeen experimenting with a revolutionary new technology that allows her to ...
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Saturday, March 26th, 2005
My wife picked up the Great Philosophers Finger Puppets for Ozzy and me this week (from the excellent Unemployed Philosophers Guild), and we've been playing with them. The set has puppets for Plato, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche (no Descartes? What were they thinking!), and he's learned to speak ...
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Monday, January 24th, 2005
Spring semester has started -- although the 14" of snow outside make it seem misnamed. And as with every January, I'm struck by how different the start of the semester feels than the start of fall. Fall always has a touch of freshness and excitement -- coming back ...
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
So, I've been setting up new versions of the blogs using WordPress. They're not linked to anything, and there just sitting in some directories there with a couple of test posts on them. A day or so later, they already have comment spam. I actually haven't had a big problem ...
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2004
Another burst of too-busy chaos. Ack. My online/hybrid course starts tomorrow, so the work of prepping is almost done. Actually doing it won't be so bad. After that, the talk I'm giving Thursday night ("Commander Data and the Possibility of Machines With Minds" - a pretty ...
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Sunday, October 10th, 2004
Jacques Derrida died night before last from pancreatic cancer; he was 74. Not to spit on anybody's grave, but Brian Leiter gets it right:
Alas, he is being referred to as a philosopher. I am, needless to say, with the vast majority of philosophers in thinking Derrida's work of a ...
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