http://venus.powerblogs.com/ The unofficial USC Philosophy Graduate Student Blog en-us 2009-01-30T05:01+00:00 http://venus.powerblogs.com/posts/1233294151.shtml I'm taking a Probability and Epistemology class with Kenny Easwaran and Jim Van Cleve this semester. We've been looking at various representation theorems, and examining the axioms. One seemingly plausible axiom... Justin Snedegar 2009-01-30T05:01+00:00 http://venus.powerblogs.com/posts/1229187743.shtml This might be fun:... Justin Snedegar 2008-12-13T17:12+00:00 http://venus.powerblogs.com/posts/1227488815.shtml FYI, the video of Saul Kripke's talk on the first person that he gave at CUNY awhile back is available on Google Video now.... Josh May, UCSB 2008-11-24T01:11+00:00 http://venus.powerblogs.com/posts/1226131392.shtml I remember talking about this at some point when I was an undergrad. What is the best way to understand "If I were you..." sentences? Taken literally, they seem to be... Justin Snedegar 2008-11-08T08:11+00:00 http://venus.powerblogs.com/posts/1226006044.shtml Mark Schroeder (USC) talks about his recent book Slaves of the Passions (OUP, 2007):... Josh May, UCSB 2008-11-06T21:11+00:00 http://venus.powerblogs.com/posts/1221292520.shtml I remember seeing this argument in my undergraduate metaphysics class. I don't remember where it came from originally, or specifically what conception of universals it was against. So, this post has... Justin Snedegar 2008-09-13T07:09+00:00 http://venus.powerblogs.com/posts/1218232935.shtml Is seems to me that abstracts are much less common in philosophy than in other disciplines. Whenever I look into, say, some psychology literature, nearly every paper on ingenta, etc. has... Josh May 2008-08-08T22:08+00:00 http://venus.powerblogs.com/posts/1217394722.shtml Check out the new site that Andrew Cullison is putting together. It's a social bookmarking site which allows users (professional philosophers and graduate students) to submit and vote-up philosophy-related blog... Justin Snedegar 2008-07-30T05:07+00:00