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Arche research centre is posting lecture multimedia online. So far, they have Crispin Wrigh, Graham Priest and Ole Hjortland. Also, the format is pretty cool (it's sound AND slides).

Awesome. OPP is back and it looks like it's updated daily. This post has a link to the feed.

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Many faculty leaders are skeptical of plans to expand online offerings at the University of California, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. The university is exploring a way to offer more online courses, promising that it can maintain high quality, save money, and expand access to courses...

I wonder what experience people have had with using online readings. A recent email prompts this query:

Study that concluded that online education is more effective than traditional courses comes under new scrutiny.

New study points to serious flaws in the older study.

The ethics of using beta blockers as a performance enhancer

I was talking with a friend recently about Analysis, which is one of my favorite journals. The reasons should be obvious: short, pithy papers that make a clear, interesting point and then don't hang around. With a 4-4 teaching load, I have less time than I would like to sit around reading monstrously long philosophy papers that arbitrarily ramble from point to point, and so Analysis is ideal for a guy like me. (Of course I'm kidding, but only a little.

Ernest Sosa and I are preparing an annotated bibliography on intuitions for a new online resources from OUP. Here is a draft; corrections and suggestions — either for things to alter, or things to add — are welcome.