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I haven’t taken stock of my general “life” to do list in a while. At this point, it includes:
Move to Austin, start PhD program, get paper(s) published
Approximately two years ago, my to do list looked like this:
Metaphysics and epistemology comprehensive exam (high pass)
Philosophy of science and logic comprehensive exam (pass)
Complete coursework (Two left: Ethics, Nietzsche in fall [...]
The Most Spiritually Affecting Buddhist Movies
Includes The Cup, The Dhamma Brothers, Peaceful Warrior, Wheel of Time, Revenge of the Sith…
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Yet Another Unitarian Universalist » Blog Archive » Don’t suck at face-to-face
A case study for engaging young people in educational goals through social media.
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It’s the last week of my classess–both the ones I’m taking online and the one I’m “facilitating” online. That’s the term that appears throughout the ed-psych readings I’ve been doing and in the sample syllabus I received for the online course.
As a facilitator, the cartoon at left isn’t ironic, then, it’s just a statement of [...]
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First, thanks all for participating in these discussions. I view my blog entries as a sort of reading club of one-plus. Basically, I’m putting up notes from readings and seeing who else has thoughts. Soon I’ll be able to do this in person, which will probably increase the quality of the posts you see. And [...]
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If you haven’t seen Dark Knight, go see it. Now. It is the best Batman movie. Ever.
Regularly scheduled blogging will return later this evening.
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I’ve found the recent discussion about Quine and Madhyamaka to be useful, in light of some readings I have for the upcoming UT Austin Philosophy Methodology Conference. Right now I’m working through Dan Korman’s session readings, which focus on the topic of paraphrase in metaphysics. In fact, I have a draft sitting in Wordpress trying [...]
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This post wasn’t originally intended to be a two-parter, but I realized that it was getting pretty long, so I’ve split it up. In the first post, I gave a brief overview of W.V.O. Quine’s argument for indeterminacy of meaning (aimed at the larger question of whether there is a distinction between analytic/synthetic meanings). Then [...]
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There’s an interesting discussion going on at Experimental Philosophy, prompted by some off the cuff remarks by Saul Kripke at a conference. In response to a question about experimental philosophy’s rebuttal to one of his thought experiments, Kripke made what appeared to some to be a racially insensitive joke and a hand-waving sort of argument. [...]
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It’s All Geek to Me
“A recursive public,” writes Kelty, “is a public that is vitally concerned with the material and practical maintenance and modification of the technical, legal, practical, and conceptual means of its own existence as a public; it is a collective ind
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In Japan, Buddhism May Be Dying Out
“That’s the image [...]
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In an earlier post, I made throw-away comment at the end, wondering out loud what impact studies of mirror neurons might have on Quine’s theory of radical translation. I didn’t have my copy of Word and Object in front of me, and I had only read about half of the text when I made the [...]
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