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Sympoze External Vote Button
It's HERE!!! Sympoze users: Help me test this out. Don't vote the post up here from Sympoze. Click on the link, visit Wide Scope and see if you can vote the post up over at Wide Scope.
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Logic for Philosophers - Sider
Sider has a draft of his logic book up on his website (all 367 pages).
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Tips for publishing as a graduate student
This post has various advice about publishing as a graduate student. Some might consider this common knowledge but I suspect it is worth reading anyway. For example, it can't hurt to be reminded that "Rejections are a natural part of the process. Anybody who submits nontrivial work to philosophy journals gets rejections."
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Philosophers on bloggingheads.tv compendium
This blog post has links to various philosophers entries on bloggingheads.tv. Bh.tv is great and this post provides easy access to the philosophers who have participated
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Excursus : Philosophy Feeds

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Fetishes and Russell's Paradox
"Hey, Gödel---we're compiling a comprehensive list of fetishes. What turn's you on?" "Anything not on your list."
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Philosopher's Annual 2007 Winners - 10 Best Papers
Leiter links to the 10 best papers in philosophy as decided by Philosopher's Annual. Hopefully people will follow this link to the papers, read them, and then post those papers of interest to sympoze!
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Top 20 Faculties - Based on New PGR

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Leiter Reports: Preview of the Overall Survey Results for the New PGR
A first preview of the new PGR results, listing some departments that have made big jumps.
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Philosophy is the 12th Best Job
A new ranking of professions says that being a philosopher is the 12th best job you can have. Scroll down and check the table.
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Philosophers on Twitter
John Basl has put together a list of philosophers using the micro-blogging service Twitter.
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Sharing BibTeX with Mark Kalderon
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]
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Thom Brooks Advice on Publishing
This post has links to two guides to publishing aimed at graduate students. Much of this overlaps with a previous scoop but there is some new stuff and in any case said differently...
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Intuition Isn't Unreliable
Nice discussion about intuitions in philosophy that jumps off from Cummins seminal article. I especially like the argument at the beginning for the conclusion that intuition isn't reliable.
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Misleading Philosophical Jargon
Which philosophical terms do you think do more to obscure than clarify?Some terms are ambiguous in ways that invite (unintentional) equivocation, e.g. 'autonomy' and 'intrinsic value'. While safely usable in some contexts, I think it's often preferable to replace these vague terms with whatever more precise understanding you have in mind.
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New PGR is out

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Philosophical Number Writing Competition at MIT
Adam Elga (Princeton) and Augustin Rayo (MIT) competed to see who could inscribe the largest finite number on a chalkboard at MIT.
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Referees in the Sunshine
Raises an interesting question: Should referees that vote for acceptance be listed in the article by name? Goes on to discuss possible benefits.
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Pedigree and Hiring Decisions
Douglas Portmore asks: What effect does pedigree have on hiring decisions? He proposes a way to eliminate that, and his hypothesis is that it does have an impact. He then suggests this is a bad thing. There's no discussion yet, but I think this could get interesting.
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