The Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking invites submissions for their 2009 A Essay Prize. Value: $300 U.S. The prize-winning paper will be published in Informal Logic, contingent upon meeting the conditions specified in the prize’s notice, available at … Continue reading
Here. As always, information about the MEW can be found here. And keep in mind that the MEW is on facebook too. Next year’s MEW will be hosted by Purdue University. The keynote speaker will be Jason Stanley, Rutgers University. … Continue reading
Suppose we want to know what Nawal’s reasons are for believing that the Democrats aren’t moving quickly enough on health care reform. Her friend Josh tells us: (RA1) Nawal’s reason for believing that the Dems aren’t moving quickly enough is … Continue reading
The Third Annual meeting of the Midwest Epistemology Workshop will take place next Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, on the campus of St. Louis University. The local organizer is John Greco. Further information, including the program and links … Continue reading
NCAA president Brand loses cancer battle at 67 – ROOT News – FOX Sports on MSN. A sad day for philosophy. Myles was a major figure in action theory, and, though I didn’t know him well, I thought him a … Continue reading
Sad news from the Society of Christian Philosophers mail list: “Bill Alston, 87, died earlier today, September 13, 2009, at his home in Jamesville, NY. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just the week before last.” Daniel Howard-Snyder has … Continue reading
Last time I asked about this situation. You’re at the final stage of a job search — call it stage C. You’re looking for evidence that you should prefer to hire one of the two otherwise (up till now) indistinguishable … Continue reading
You’re on a search committee in the final stage of a hiring decision. It’s down to two candidates, D and U. D and U are indistinguishable in almost every respect: each earned the PhD last year, and has spent a … Continue reading
Lyrics from “Victim of Love”, chorus only (verses below the fold for the curious), relevant parts in bold: Victim of love, you’re just a victim of love I could be wrong , but I’m not (echo: but I’m not) Victim … Continue reading
Fabrizio Cariani, Marc Pauly & Josh Snyder, “Decision Framing in Judgment Aggregation” from Synthese Thomas Forster, “The Iterative Conception of Set” from the Review of Symbolic Logic Tamar Szabó Gendler, “Alief and Belief” from the Journal of Philosophy Daniel Jacobson, … Continue reading