26 June 2009
By Josh May
In music
I’m getting quite into this band Phoenix. In a way I feel like I shouldn’t like it; it’s simple and it does seem like it’s all been done before. But, hey, Pitchfork likes it, so I can too!
Here they are playing their song “1901″ on SNL from their recent album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
(Sorry for [...]
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23 June 2009
By Josh May
In news, philosophy
My paper “Relational Desires and Empirical Evidence against Psychological Egoism” has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Philosophy!
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19 June 2009
By Josh May
In technology
I’m posting via my new iPhone 3GS with the Wordpress mobile app. It’s pretty cool! I had an iPhone before—1st gen—but now I also have a Wordpress blog I can update from it.
So I’m just testing things out. I’m digging both Wordpress and the new iPhone. The phone is way faster and has some [...]
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18 June 2009
By Josh May
In news, philosophy
I am now a leaf editor at PhilPapers for the following two categories:
Epistemic Contextualism and Invariantism [Text, BibTeX, EndNote]
Altruism and Psychological Egoism [Text, BibTeX, EndNote]
It’s a relatively small role, but I’m excited to be playing a role in this fabulous resource. The first category currently has 27 papers listed under it; the second category has [...]
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17 June 2009
By Josh May
In technology
The newest update for the iPhone OS is here:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/
Yay!
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15 June 2009
By Josh May
In fun/humor, music, philosophy
There’s a lot of talk about intuition in philosophy these days. Anyway, here’s a song about it by Feist.
“What gives, what helps the intuiton?”—indeed.
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12 June 2009
By Josh May
In music
It seems there’s been kind of a lull in good new “indie” music lately. But here’s a list of some new music I’ve been into lately (i.e. in the past 6 months or so):
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Appleseed Cast – Sagarmatha
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Deerhoof – Offend Maggie
Deerhunter – Microcastle-Weird Era Continued
Fleet Foxes – [...]
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09 June 2009
By Josh May
In news
I’ve just obtained my own website and I’m moving everything over here. My old blog and UCSB Uweb site are all moving here. So please update your links all you millions of people!
Anywho, I’m quite excited that the site is powered by Wordpress, which is a content management system designed primarily for blogging. Moving to [...]
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05 June 2009
By Josh May
In news, philosophy
Here it is:
Review of Richard Holton’s Willing, Wanting, Waiting (2009, OUP), published in Metapsychology, Vol. 13, No. 23 (2009).
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