Posted in Tidbits on Aug 29th, 2009
I’ve updated LaTeX for Philosophers. Among the new items: LineByLine.sty – Designed to run inside the equation environment, LineByLine provides a quick and uniform format for line by line derivations. This is beta and works better than alternative solutions I’ve been able to find, but I’m keen to hear about bug reports, things-you-wish-it-would-do reports, or I’ve-got-a-better-idea [...]
Sept 1-4, Prague: Foundations of Uncertainty Oct 2-4, Konstanz: Explanation, Confirmation, and Prediction in Biology and Medicine Nov 2, Konstanz: Karen Bennett (Cornell) and Branden Fitelson (UC Berkeley) Dec 7, Konstanz: Gerhard Schurz (Düsseldorf) and Jiji Zhang (Lingnan)
Posted in Social Epistemology, Tidbits on Aug 3rd, 2009
Eric Gilbert, a 2009 Google Fellow, and his colleagues at Illinois Urbana-Champaign devised an empirical study to test whether blogs isolate readers from dissenting opinions by comparing the ratio of agreeing to disagreeing comments in several top blogs. They write that As early as 1996, Nicholas Negroponte theorized about The Daily Me, a newspaper perfectly [...]
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