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mark phelan and i will be in philadelphia dec 28-29 interviewing candidates for the department’s tenure-track position in philosophy.

Success! We hired Chloe Armstrong, a soon to be minted PhD from the University of Michigan! (Go Blue!)

Epistemology

I am revising my Epistemology course. I think I have finally found a mix of topics and readings that works. There are three topics:

1. The analysis of knowledge and the Gettier Problem.

2. Moore’s Proof and Skepticism.

3. Contingency and A Prioricity.

End of 9th Week

Two things to report.

1. Students in my Symbolic Logic course didn’t think I needed to worry about allowing them to use “shortcuts” in proofs. They seemed to think that they needed to work through all the sub-routines that the proof system required.

2. The “rolling final exam” seems to be working well in Early Analytic Philosophy. I gave part 1 of 3 parts last Friday and just posted part 2 this morning. I am doing it primarily because of the short period of time I have for grading the exams of graduating seniors. If it works in this class, however, I might use it in other classes.

Winter Break

So, during winter break, I plan to:

  1. finish a tenure committee assignment.
  2. prep for intro to philosophy.
  3. prep for topics in logic.
  4. read student work for an independent study.

 

Sounds like fun.