Philosophy Grad Conference in Metaethics

The Texas Tech Philosophy Third Annual Graduate Student Conference on metaethics kicks off this Friday, April 3.  Graduate students from around the country will be presenting papers, and many of our own graduate students will be commenting.  The keynote speaker will be Geoffrey Sayre-McCord from UNC-Chapel Hill.  You can access Prof. Sayre-McCord's website here:

http://philosophy.unc.edu/smccord.htm

And the conference schedule here:

http://www.philosophy.ttu.edu/dept/GradConf2009.doc

The Stanford Encyclopedia entry on metaethics would also be something useful to look at:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics/

Hope to see you there!

Beginning Philosophy

Plato, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Reid, Armstrong... discuss away. And good luck on your first philosophy exam.

Active Learning?

If you were a student in my teaching seminar last semester, I know you are already shuddering at the post's title. Take a look at this NY Times article about active learning in intro physics classes at MIT (& other schools)--then take a look at the comments, especially the ones from MIT students who actually have to take those "TEAL" classes: they tell very different stories. Is the new style of classroom and teaching the way to go? How do we know what's the best teaching method?

http://community.nytimes.com/article/comments/2009/01/13/us/13physics.html?s=1&pg=2

Cha-ching

If you're looking into financial support for graduate school, check out the following link:

http://chronicle.com/stats/stipends/

Community College Jobs

If you are thinking about applying to community college jobs, read on:

http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/10/2008101401c.htm

http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2008/11/2008111701c.htm

Publishing in Graduate Journals

If you are thinking about publishing in a graduate journal, read on:

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2008/11/a-young-philoso.html

Which philosopher will you vote for this election season?

When you need a good break, you should watch each of the following philosophy campaign ads and then rock the vote: will it be for Nietzsche, Kant, or Kierkegaard? Personally I like Kierkegaard, but I don't know if he has enough experience. I need someone reliable and tested- someone I can set my watch to.

Ad for Nietzsche:


Ad for Kierkegaard: