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Tips for publishing as a graduate student

http://philosophyofbrains.com

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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Logic for Philosophers - Sider

http://tedsider.org

Sider has a draft of his logic book up on his website (all 367 pages).

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Excursus : Philosophy Feeds

http://markelikalderon.com

A list of RSS feeds of philosophy journals

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Fetishes and Russell's Paradox

http://xkcd.com

"Hey, Gödel---we're compiling a comprehensive list of fetishes. What turn's you on?" "Anything not on your list."

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Philosophers on bloggingheads.tv compendium

http://ucsbphilosophy.blogspot.com

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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Sharing BibTeX with Mark Kalderon

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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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Philosopher's Annual 2007 Winners - 10 Best Papers

http://leiterreports.typepad.com

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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Thom Brooks Advice on Publishing

http://the-brooks-blog.blogspot.com

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

http://tar.weatherson.org

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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New York Times article on David Foster Wallace's Amherst

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Details of DFW's work in philosophy. His use of Montague semantics to undermine an argument for fatalism. Author makes interesting connections with a tension in his literature.

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Philosophers on Twitter

http://www.johnbasl.com

John Basl has put together a list of philosophers using the micro-blogging service Twitter.

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A Taxonomy of Philosophy - Useful Online Resource in the Works

http://fragments.consc.net

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.

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Leiter Reports: Thinking About Graduate School in Philosophy?

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Leiter points to a write up by Brink on graduate school in philosophy. As Leiter says, sensible advice.

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Leiter Reports: Writing Samples in Job Applications: How Long?

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If the comments get going on this, could be useful for those on the market.

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The Splintered Mind: Applying to Graduate School in Philosophy

http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com

Compilation of advice for applicants.

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The Brooks Blog: More on journal rankings: the case of Australasia

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Brooks on journal rankings from Australia. Hat tip Leiter.

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REALLY Honest Philosophy Job Ad

http://www.snopes.com

[HT: Brian Leiter]

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What Did Gettier Discover?

http://www.umsu.de

In this post titled "Discoveries Merely About Concepts" Wo discusses a disagreement between Frank Jackson and Timothy Williamson over what it is that Gettier discovered with his classic counterexamples to the JTB analysis of knowledge.

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The Unity of the Proposition - Soames

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Scott Soames discusses Frege's and Russell's (confused) attempts to solve the problem he calls "the unity of the proposition". He then attempts to get at the heart of the problem, and sketch a solution. This paper was especially interesting for me because (i) I had to read it for class, and (ii) Soames's solution is very similar to a solution I developed in response to a problem for platonism in the philosophy of mathematics.

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Philosophy Journal BibTeX Files

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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.

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