I read Tamler Sommer’s new book, A Very Bad Wizard: Morality behind the Curtain, recently and really liked it. So I wrote a short review of it for Metapsychology. It’s posted here, open access and all:
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5317&cn=135
I highly recommend the book, though I do complain a bit about some of its pessimistic aspects.
UPDATE: The review got [...]
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Review of A Very Bad Wizard
RPP Article Open Access
I just set up the details for publication of an article (“Practical Interests, Relevant Alternatives, and Knowledge Attributions”) I and my fellow co-authors have coming out in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Springer, like many journals now, has an option for the authors to pay to have the article open access so it’s free [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New IEP Feature
We’ve implemented a new feature at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: printer-friendly versions of articles. Check it out on this article, for example:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/contextu/
The link is on the right side on the sidebar.
Presenting at Buffalo Conf.
I got a paper accepted to present at a conference at SUNY Buffalo in a few weeks. It’s the “Buffalo All X-Phi Weekend” with a graduate conference and a workshop. It’s being put on by SUNY’s Experimental Epistemology Research Group. Here’s the program:
http://eerg.buffalo.edu/program.htm
It should be a great time!
EJP Paper Published Online
My paper “Relational Desires and Empirical Evidence against Psychological Egoism’—which is forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy—has been published online! Here’s the link (requires institutional access):
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122581731/PDFSTART
It’s listed on their “Early View” page here (click image):
So it will be out in print in a particular issue later, but this is the final thing. They will [...]
IEP Site is Live!
The redesign of the website of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)—which I’ve been slaving over all summer—is finally coming to its end. The newly designed site is now live and available at the same old URL:
www.iep.utm.edu
You can view a piece of the old site still for now here. It’s quite a difference! The new [...]
Visiting MIT
I will be a visiting student at MIT for the fall term this year! I’ll be hanging in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Harvard is about 2 miles away as well. It should be a great time!
