Rory Miller at CHIRON offers some good advice for how to read a book. He also has some interesting comments related to early education. The parts on reading are based on reading for “maximizing comprehension and retention", not on “pleasure.” Good for those hard to understand math textbooks or philosophical works…not so good for rereading [...]
Grinding through some blogs I’ve decided to upgrade some security on my computer. If encryption or secure email interests you, check out the following sites: gpg4win: Secure E-Mail and Encryption using GnuPG for Windows The Enigmail Project: Openpgp Email Security for Mozilla Applications Truecrypt: Free Open-Source On-The-Fly-Encryption If you want to play around with encrypted [...]
A possible frustration in teaching is getting an email from a student in which you are not sure who they are. In my own classes I encourage students to make liberal use of my office hours and unofficial discussion sections to give us a chance to meet and chat. Students who make use of these [...]
A click from Richard Feynman. Might be good for use in a critical thinking course.
Is there value to combining experimental moral psychology and moral philosophy? Rene Descartes remains one of the more famous experimental philosophers in history. Some say he is the “Father of Modern Philosophy.” His two most famous contributions are (1) “I think, I am” and (2) the infamous Cartesian Coordinate System that linked geometry with algebra. [...]