Archive > October 2009

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize!

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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:

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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 [...]

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