Just checking in to let you know what I've been blogging about lately.

• Letter to My Senators (The Sequential Philosopher) - Please don't cut off NSF funding for political science.
• Exciting Trends in Philosophy of Science (It's Only a Theory) - The four most exciting areas in general philosophy of science, IMHO.
• The Varieties of Evidence (It's Only a ( Read more... )

For those who happen to follow this blog despite the lack of postings, I suspect that much of my blogging energy this semester is going to be directed at the blog I set up for my grad seminar on "Science, Values, and Democracy":

http://scienceandvalues.wordpress.com/

Hopefully some of you will be interested in the discussions.

Get it?

(It actually took me a few minutes. lol!)

OMG! I want one of these!

I've got a new post up on the UCSD philosophy blog, Weitermachen. Check it out.

In other news, after a quiet launch, my webpage has receded into non-functionality. I've heard that there were "plesk updates" and "packages recompiling" but it's been like a week now. Who knows what will happen. Perhaps I need a backup?

Setup: Frank is on a plane back to D.C., where he is finishing up a year at NSF. Frank is a microbiologist at UCSD (or actually, I think he might do bioinformatics). He's not the most sympathetic character: he has clearly don't some shitty things, he is engaged in some questionable stuff with respect to a company he is involved with and his NSF ( Read more... )

Aww, this cannot be good.

Perfect!