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Peter Bradley has created an interesting group blog dedicated to Teaching Philosophy.  I will add it to our blogroll.

Erik Angner sent me this old but delightful article by BBC News on machines in widespread use that arguably pass the Turing test.

Brian Weatherson has a post on a new signalling mechanism apparently implemented by the American Economic Association.  It sounds like job candidates are now allowed to “signal” to two departments they are applying to that they are seriously interested in the job.  This might help candidates that miight be considered “too …

One of my neuroscience teachers explained to us how wonderful Modafinil is:  it keeps you awake and fully concentrated for hours and hours, without apparent side effects.  Modafinil is ostensively a drug prescribed for narcolepsy, but it’s clear that many people use it simply to stay awake and work.  Given …

Apparently there is more to beauty than looking average.  The article has a link to some fun demos; in one demo, you can average human faces together and see the results.  For some reason, it seems to me that if you average a man and a woman’s face together, you …

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I’m working on the semantics of so called ’empty names’ (names without a referent).  I’d like to know your semantic intuitions about the following:(1) Santa Claus brings presents to children.(2) Santa Claus is fat.(3) Santa Claus is skinny.(4) Mickey Mouse is a mouse.(5) Mickey Mouse is a donkey.(6) Santa Claus …