Ryan Paul in an Ars Technica article, Byte-sized stories: Twittering a tiny tale, wonders about philosophy and microblogging:
Microblogging can clearly work with fiction, but what about more substantive works, like philosophical treatises? In a moment of intoxication inspiration, I came up with a quick Python one-liner1 to compute how many lines in an […]
sympoze is a social bookmarking site for philosophers. Currently in beta, sympoze is only open to professional philosophers and graduate students. Not only can you submit links but sympoze has the following features:
Voting on submitted links User profiles Online status Instant messaging
Looks to be an excellent online resource if enough philosophers participate—and not just because a bookmark to […]
Mark Liberman at Language Log has written a nice post about the charge that linguistic descriptivism is a manifestation of what Nietzsche calls slave morality. Liberman is right in claiming that this does not make sense, but for the wrong reasons, I think.
It is odd how so many who would cite Nietzsche in support of […]
CTAN just announced a new package, turnstile:
turnstile is a style based on article.cls to be used for typesetting articles. Among other uses, the turnstile sign is used by logicians for denoting a consequence relation, related to a given logic, between a collection of formulas and a formula. […]
In earlier posts, I observed that some things that are easy to do with LaTeX are unobvious, like word count and double spacing.
There are a lot of packages for LaTeX that add a lot of extra functionality. Consider the following esoteric example. Gottlob Frege was a nineteenth century German mathematician and philosopher and arguably the […]
Joan Acocella’s review of the Iron Whim, a history of the typewriter that I discussed in an earlier post, has apparently prompted a minor dispute in Nietzsche scholarship.
Nigel Warbuton of the Open University reports Accocela’s claim that Nietzsche used a typewriter. Indeed he owned the Hansen writing ball:
The writing ball was developed by the Danish […]
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