I just found out that I got an Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize from the American Philosophical Association for the paper I’ll be presenting at the Pacific Division Meeting! And it comes with a travel stipend!
Again I found the email in my junk/spam mail folder. It’s starting to look like that folder is not filled [...]
Archive > October 2009
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize!
Paper Accepted at Pacific APA
I just got word that my paper “What in the World Is Weakness of Will?” (latest abstract available on this page) has been accepted for presentation at a colloquium session at the next meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA)! The meeting takes place in San Francisco March 31 – April [...]
Pacific APA Special Session
I’ll be presenting something for this session. Here’s the tentative program so far:
“Experimental Philosophy in the Classroom”Special Session Sponsored by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy
SESSION CHAIRAlexandra BradnerDenison University
“EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES”Emily EschCollege of St. Benedict/St. John’s UniversityChris WeigelUtah Valley University
“POLLING AS PEDAGOGY: EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN A METAPHYSICS [...]
Gopnik on Colbert Report
Developmental Psychologist, Alison Gopnik (who has done a lot of work that has interesting philosophical implications) was on The Colbert Report recently promoting her new book, The Philosophical Baby:
Buffalo & Fredonia Trip
So I’m back from my trip to SUNY Buffalo and SUNY Fredonia (both in NY). I had a great time! At both places I presented the paper I’m working on with Richard Holton, which is tentatively titled “What in the World is Weakness of Will?”. The first was a conference in Buffalo on X-phi:
http://eerg.buffalo.edu/program.htm
The second [...]
