sympoze

Mark Kalderon's BibTeX sharing idea inspired me to continue compiling BibTeX files for the major philosophy journals. This post has a list of all of the BibTeX files I've made so far.

Mark Kalderon's got the right idea. Philosophers should be sharing BibTeX files, and Kalderon has an easy method to do it. [HT: Brad Weslake]

A list of RSS feeds of philosophy journals

This philosophy-centric Digg clone looks great! (ht Hesperus/Phosphorus)

It's often suggested that on tough questions (e.g. any contentious philosophical issue), we should suspend judgment. Maybe I'm being silly here, but I can't help but wonder, 'why?' I'm more drawn to the thought that you should use your best judgment, rather than suspending it. I do agree it's important to take the limits of one's epistemic position into account. But the appropriate effect of it is not on the first-order content of your judgments (i.e. the credences you assign to propositions), but their robustness (i.e.

There have been high profile cases on the matter of which toilets trans people should be able to use - see here, for instance.
A solution from Thailand: the ‘third sex’ toilets. This link is to a short video, explaining why a school in Thailand introduced a toilet for those pupils who considered themselves transsexual. The pupil interviewed seems quite content with the set up.

David Chalmers and David Bourget are working on a taxonomy of philosophy in order to assist in tracking online papers in philosophy. Seems like a very worthwhile endeavor to significantly improve online philosophy resources. Check out the explanation and call for feedback here.

It’s been shamefully long time since I mentioned LaVena Johnson, the soldier whose apparent rape and murder seems to have been the subject of quite a cover-up. I’m mentioning it again now because there’s a petition to sign. But it’s also worth noting, as Cara does, just how slow both civil rights and women’s organisations have been to join this fight.

Dropbox is out of beta (and it even works great in Linux). This is a must have backup/sync tool - especially if you switch between computers. I've already moved everything in my Documents folder to my Dropbox folder. Noteworthy feature: It keeps track of ALL revisions and this doesn't count against your storage limit.