AAPT Members

McDaniel has just been approved for an iTunesU site, and I’m piloting the project in my CT class this semester. If you’re interested, you can subscribe here:
, or if you want to subscribe directly:
http://inquiry.mcdaniel.edu/feeds/videoCriticalThinkingQT.xml.  read more »

The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting story, Just Think: It’s important, about Peter Ellerton, who is trying to get more support for pre-collegiate instruction in Philosophy in Australia.  Does anyone know if there is an Australian Association of Philosophy Teachers? Is there anything that we who are members of the AAPT or the APA sub-committee on pre-collegiate instruction can do to help?

I snapped this on my way out of MI, where I’ve been hiding for the past 5 weeks. This is in Shelby, MI on MI 31. (you will probably have to click on it to read the signs).

Actually the first time I read it, I read the phrase ‘Jean Paul Sartre’ as part of the sentence, and assumed that the sign had been placed there BY the Assembly of God church - i.e. “… is not to choose Jean Paul Sartre”. It was only after seeing it on my bike that I realized it was meant to be a quote - i.e. “… is not to choose.’ -Jean Paul Sartre”.

Pete Mandik over at 'Brain Hammer' posted these the other day:
moar funny pictures moar funny pictures  read more »

From the guardian, speculating on why it is so poorly attended by British Professional Philosophers:

Broadening British horizons

For some philosophers, attending the World Congress in Seoul is a huge privilege. So why does it leave British delegates cold?  read more »

The Telegraph has a story on Anthony Flew’s recent comments on Richard Dawkins:

Richard Dawkins branded ’secularist bigot’ by veteran philosopher

And the Guardian has an article introducing Chalmers and Clark’s extended mind thesis, based on (apparantly) Chalmers’ talk at the World Congress of Philosophy:

I think, therefore iPod: Is an iPod part of your mind? The question is not as daft as it may sound